Miogryllodes hebardi Desutter-Grandcolas

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2014, New taxa and data for Neotropical Phalangopsidae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), Zootaxa 3866 (3), pp. 398-420 : 403-404

Miogryllodes hebardi Desutter-Grandcolas , n. sp.

( Fig. 1 K–O)

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Type locality. Costa Rica, Prov. Heredia, 11 km ESE La Virgen, 250–350m, 10°21’N 84°03’W, IN-Bio-OET transect.

Type material. Holotype: Costa Rica, Prov. Heredia, 11 km ESE La Virgen, 250–350m, 10°21’N 84°03’W, IN-Bio-OET transect, 22.ii.2004, 1 male, 03/TN/13/006 ( INBio). Allotype: Same locality as the holotype, 18.iv.2004, 1 female, 003/TN/01/021 ( INBio). Paratypes, 3 males, 1 female: Same locality as the holotype, 22.ii.2004, 2 males, 03/TN/17/010 (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3397), 003/TN/15/008 ( INBio); 18.iv.2004, 1 female, 003/ TN/15/008 (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3577); 18.iv.2004, 1 male, 03/TN/01/021 (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3578). Specimens in alcohol.

Other material examined. Costa Rica, Prov. Heredia, 11 km ESE La Virgen, 250–350m, 10°21’N 84°03’W, IN-Bio-OET transect, 18.iv.2004, 1 juvenile, 03/TN/04/014 ( INBio). Specimen in alcohol.

Diagnosis. Species very similar to M. diaphoros and M. panamae , from which it can be separated by its smaller size, and male and female genitalia.

Description. In addition to the characters of the genus.

TIII inner serrulation: no spine before spur 1, no spine between spurs 1 and 2, 0–1 spine in males (mean 0.2) and no spine in females between spurs 2 and 3, 0–1 spine in males (mean 0.8) and females (mean 0.8) between spurs 3 and 4, 2–5 spines in males (mean 3.6), 3–4 spines in females (mean 3.5) above spur 4; outer serrulation: no spine before spur 1, and between spurs 1 and 2, 0–1 spines in males (mean 0.8) and 1 spine in females between spurs 2 and 3, 1 spine in males and 1–2 spines in females (mean 1.5) between spurs 3 and 4, 5–7 spines in males (mean 6) and 6–7 spines in females (mean 6.3) above spur 4. Basitarsomeres III with 1 in males and 1–2 in females (mean 1.3) inner dorsal spine, and 4–5 in males (mean 4.2) and in females (mean 4.3) outer dorsal spines, in addition to apical spines.

Male genitalia. Very small. Ectophallic fold not raised between pseudepiphallic arms as in M. diaphoros ( Fig. 1 L); ectophallic apodemes also thinner and shorter, and almost parallel ( Fig. 1 K); transverse sclerotization between ectophallic fold and endophallic sclerite more narrow ( Fig. 1 K); endophallic apodeme larger.

Female. Subgenital plate as on Fig. 1 M.

Female genitalia. Copulatory papilla smaller and more cylindrical than that of M. diaphoros ; almost straight apically ( Fig. 1 N, O).

Measurements.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Miogryllodes Hebard, 1928 a. A – J, Miogryllodes diaphoros (Otte, 2006), n. comb., K – O, Miogryllodes hebardi Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. A, maxillary palpi, joints 3 to 5, scale c; B, left scape, ventral, scale c; C, male subgenital plate, ventral, scale c; D – F, K – L, male genitalia, scale a, dorsal (D, K), ventral (E), lateral (F, L); G, M, female subgenital plate, scale c, ventral; H – J, N, O, female copulatory papilla, scale b, dorsal (H, N), ventral (I), lateral (J, O). Abbreviations, see page ***. Scales 1 mm.