Paraoaxaca cuitlateca, Aguilar-RoldáN & Gómez-Tapia & Mariño-Pérez & Song & Vázquez-Reyes & Sanabria-Urbán, 2024

Aguilar-Rolda ́ N, César Antonio, Gómez-Tapia, José David, Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo, Song, Hojun, Vázquez-Reyes, Leopoldo D. & Sanabria-Urbán, Salomón, 2024, Studies in Mexican grasshoppers: four new species of the genus Oaxaca Fontana Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 with the erection of the subgenus Paraoaxaca (Caelifera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae), Zootaxa 5486 (4), pp. 499-538 : 520-521

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13210733
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scientific name	Paraoaxaca cuitlateca
status	sp. nov.

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Paraoaxaca cuitlateca View in CoL sp. nov. Aguilar-Roldán, Gómez-Tapia, Mariño-Pérez & Sanabria-Urbán

DIAGNOSIS AND MORPHOLOGICAL AFFINITIES. Males of cuitlateca sp. nov. differ from all other Paraoaxaca species by the short, spatula-like furcula with subtriangular tips pointing forwards ( Fig. 11A View FIGURE 11 ) in combination with the spherical subgenital plate with a tongue-like tip pointing inwards ( Fig. 11C–D View FIGURE 11 ); or by the unilobulated lophi of epiphallus ( Fig. 15A View FIGURE 15 ), combined with the short dorsal aedeagal valves with dorsally flattened, wrench-like apices ( Fig. 15C View FIGURE 15 ). Other differences are shown in Table 2 View TABLE 2 . Despite male genitalia of cuitlateca sp. nov. and cohni sp. nov. most closely resemble each other, key differences exist. For example, the former species has unilobulated and stout lophi of epiphallus (compared to bilobulated as in cohni ). Further comparisons are made in Table 2 View TABLE 2 .

SPECIES DESCRIPTION. Coloration ( Fig. 5A–D View FIGURE 5 ) and general morphology ( Fig. 8A–D View FIGURE 8 ): similar in variation as described for the subgenus, except for the coloration of central and dorsolateral light stripes of the dorsal surface of the body that in this species ranges from white to ivory. Male terminalia ( Fig. 11A–D View FIGURE 11 ): supra-anal plate subtriangular with rounded posterior border. Furcula moderately short (but larger than in ottei ) and spatula-like with subtriangular tips pointing forwards in dorsal view ( Fig. 11A View FIGURE 11 ). Cerci conical and straight, tapering gradually towards the apex, nearly as long as the supra-anal plate ( Fig. 11A–B View FIGURE 11 ). Subgenital plate spherical with a tongue-like tip in the posterior border pointing inwards in dorsal view ( Fig. 11C View FIGURE 11 ) and with a concave ventral border in lateral view ( Fig. 11D View FIGURE 11 ). Female terminalia ( Fig. 11E–F View FIGURE 11 ): supra-anal plate triangular. Furcula not developed. Cerci conical, nearly one-half the length of the supra-anal plate ( Fig. 11E View FIGURE 11 ). Dorsal valves of ovipositor lanceolate with tips curved dorsally ( Fig. 11F View FIGURE 11 ). Ventral valves of ovipositor with a ventral tooth projecting posteriorly and tips curved ventrally ( Fig. 11F View FIGURE 11 ). Male genitalia ( Fig. 15A–D View FIGURE 15 ): epiphallus well sclerotized, bridge almost straight ( Fig. 15A View FIGURE 15 ); ancorae short, triangular, and curved ventrally ( Fig. 15A–B View FIGURE 15 ); anterior projections curved inwards with sharp pointy apices ( Fig. 15A–B View FIGURE 15 ); lophi stout and unilobulated in dorsal view ( Fig. 15A View FIGURE 15 ) with anterior-internal tooth notably developed dorsally in lateral view ( Fig. 15B View FIGURE 15 ). Endophallus with dorsal valves short (barely surpassing the sheath of ectophallus), dorsally flattened and wrench-like apices ( Fig. 15C View FIGURE 15 ). Ventral valves conical, nearly as long as the dorsal valves in lateral view of endophallus ( Fig. 15D View FIGURE 15 ).

EXTERNAL VARIATION (in mm). Males (n = 26): body length: 11.22–16.72 (13.98 ± 1.4), pronotum length: 2.77–3.37 (3.06 ± 0.15), prozona length: 1.68–2.67 (2.09 ± 0.19), metazona length: 0.71–1.23 (0.95 ± 0.14), metazona/prozona ratio: 0.32–0.72 (0.46 ± 0.1), and hind femur length: 8.01–10.07 (8.75 ± 0.45). Females (n = 38): body length: 13.11–20.59 (18.27 ± 1.76), pronotum length: 3.13–4.75 (4.02 ± 0.27), prozona length: 2.26–3.18 (2.77 ± 0.23), metazona length: 0.85–1.73 (1.19 ± 0.21), metazona/prozona ratio: 0.27–0.76 (0.43 ± 0.11), and hind femur length: 8.91–11.81 (10.77 ± 0.56).

TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype male ( Fig. 8A, C View FIGURE 8 ): México, Guerrero, Carr. 134, km 2, rumbo a Vallecitos; Selva seca caducifolia, 23-IX- 2017, 440 masl, 17.894651312º N, - 101.353231939º W, S. Sanabria-Urbán & Raúl Cueva L111.2017 (locality L04), CAFESI (specimen #16). GoogleMaps Additional type material: allotype female ( Fig. 8B, D View FIGURE 8 ) and GoogleMaps 4 paratypes (1♂ and 3♀) with same data as holotype, CAFESI; GoogleMaps 7 paratypes (2♂ and 5♀) from: Mexico, Michoacan, 16-20 km NE, Rt 200, Ixtapa-Altamirano rd; Mountain forest , 9-IX- 1981, 419 masl, 17.78293º N, - 101.47212º W, Otte Daniel #60 (locality L05), ANSP. GoogleMaps 19 paratypes (9♂ and 10♀) from: México, Michoacán, Carr. 37, km 325, Ca. La Mira ; Selva seca caducifolia, 7-X- 2023, 212 masl, 18.06561º N, - 102.32162º W, S. Sanabria-Urbán & J.D. Gómez-Tapia L01.2023 (locality L13), ANSP. GoogleMaps 17 paratypes (7♂ and 10♀) from: México, Michoacán, Carr. 200, km 23 “Puente La Popoyuta”; Selva seca caducifolia, 8-X-2023, 2 masl, 18.03841º N, 102.53857º W, S. Sanabria-Urbán & J.D. Gómez-Tapia L05.2023 (locality L15), CAFESI. GoogleMaps 15 paratypes (6♂ and 9♀) from: México, Guerrero, Carr. a Chutla de Nava , km 2, 1.01 km al SO de “Chutla de Nava”; Selva seca caducifolia, 9-X- 2023, 112 masl, 17.92523º N, - 101.78867º W, S. Sanabria-Urbán & J.D. Gómez-Tapia L08.2023 (locality L16), CAFESI. GoogleMaps

DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND TEMPORAL OCCURRENCE. Individuals of cuitlateca sp. nov. have been collected in five lowland (sea level— 440 masl) localities up to 127 km apart in southeastern Michoacán and northwestern Guerrero, within the Pacific lowlands and the Sierra Madre del Sur biogeographic provinces. Adult specimens of cuitlateca sp. nov. have been collected in September and November in weedy-bushy ruderal habitats surrounded by tropical deciduous forests ( Fig. 17E–F View FIGURE 17 ).

ETYMOLOGY. This species is named after the Cuitlateca, an ethnic group that inhabited northwestern Guerrero and disappeared at the beginning of the 20 th century. The epithet cuitlatec a is a feminine noun in apposition.