Enyaliopsis spec. 2

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Chobanov, Dragan, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta & Hemp, Claudia, 2022, Review of song patterns and sound production in armoured ground crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hetrodini) with karyological data and taxonomic notes, Zootaxa 5120 (4), pp. 451-481 : 468

Enyaliopsis spec. 2 Mpwapwa

This species is called Mpwapwa Armoured Ground Bushcricket and can be identified using the key in Hemp (2021). The single known male specimen of this species has a small body size and the spines of the pronotum are rather short. It resembles E. spec. 3 from the East Chenene Forest Reserve further north-west but is smaller in body size and the pronotum is less spiny.

Material examined: 1 male [CH8353 (SR, TI, CHR), TANZANIA, Mpwapwa plateau, Dodoma Region, Wotta Forest Reserve , 1840 m, March 2017, leg. C. Hemp.

Reference: Hemp 2021

Bioacoustics. The calling song ( Fig. 8H ) consists of long series of syllables (song type B in Fig. 5 ; see Table 2 ). The spectrum of the song ( Fig. 6 ; peak at 13 kHz) does not show large differences to the typical Hetrodini pattern.

Genitalia. In a comparison of figures, the titillator of our specimen ( Fig. 9G ) is most similar to that of E. monsteri Glenn, 1991 from the petersi group.

Chromosomes: 2n = 27 (26 + X0), FN = 30; pair 1 submetacentric, 2–13 acrocentric, X chromosome metacentric (1 male); thin C-bands in the paracentromeric region of all chromosomes ( Fig. 12F )

Figures

FIGURE 5. Oscillograms of song types in Hetrodini. Song consisting A of long trills (Cosmoderus femoralis CH8627), B of broken trills (including transitions to long echemes; B1 Spalacomimus talpa, B2 Enyaliopsis jennae, B3 Enyaliopsis ephippiatus) or C of regularly repeated echemes (C1 Spalacomimus spec. near verruciferus, C2 Eugaster guyoni). 1-min-sections.

FIGURE 6. Power spectra of male calling songs in Hetrodini species

FIGURE 8. Oscillograms of the calling songs in the genera Cosmoderus and Enyaliopsis (figures of E. iaculator based on figures and data from literature; see text). A Cosmoderus femoratus, B Enyaliopsis bloyeti. C Enyaliopsis carolinus, D Enyaliopsis ephippiatus, song type A, E Enyaliopsis spec. 1 (near ephippiatus), song type B, F Enyaliopsis iaculator, G Enyaliopsis jennae, H Enyaliopsis spec. 2 Mpwapwa. Left column overview (5-s-section), right column detail (250-ms-section).

FIGURE 9. Titillator and genitalic sclerites in Hetrodini, Enyaliopsina. First row A Cosmoderus femoralis (CH8627), B Enyaliopsis bloyeti (Kazimzumbwi), C Enyaliopsis carolinus (Minziro), D Enyaliopsis ephippiatus (Rau Forest); second row E Enyaliopsis spec. 1 near ephippiatus (Mwala), F Enyaliopsis jennae (Uluguru), G Enyaliopsis spec. 2 (Mpwapwa), H Enyaliopsis spec. 3 (East Chenene); third row I Gymnoproctus rammei (Puge Simbo), J Gymnoproctus spec. (East Chenene).

FIGURE 12. Examples of chromosome number and heterochromatin C-banding of mitotic male (A–C, G–K) and mitotic female complements (D), as well as diplotene/diakinesis (C, E, I on the right), and metaphase I (F) for the following Hetrodini taxa: A Cosmoderus femoralis, 2n = 24 + X0 (CH8626), B Enyaliopsis bloyeti, 2n = 28 + X0 (HE114), C Enyaliopsis carolinus, 2n =24 + neo-XY (CH8625), D Enyaliopsis ephippiatus, 2n = 26 + XX (female CH7849), E Enyaliopsis jennae, 2n = 26 + neo- XY (HE87), F Enyaliopsis spec. 2 Mpwapwa, 2n = 26 + X0 (CH8353), G Gymnoproctus rammei, 2n = 26 + X0 (CH8763), H Gymnoproctus spec., 2n = 26 + X0 (CH7953), I Spalacomimus magnus, 2n = 16 + X0 (CH7945), J Spalacomimus verruciferus, 2n = 22 + neo-XY (CH7897), K Spalacomimus spec. near verruciferus, 2n = 22 + neo-XY (CH7899). Bi-armed chromosomes (meta/submeta/subacrocentric) are marked with numbers (A, C, D, F–I); in the neo-XY system, sex chromosomes form association in diplotene (C) and metaphase I (I); arrowheads indicate interstitial C-bands in 1 (A, E, J, K) and 2 (I) pairs; asterisks (*) marked distal C-bands in 3, 4, 5 (C), 3, 4 (D), 2-heteromorphic (G, H) pair; X = neo-X and Y = neo-Y sex chromosomes. Scale bar = 10 µm.