Miogryllodes diaphoros Otte 2006, n. comb.
Creators: name: Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Miogryllodes
Miogryllodes diaphoros

description: Miogryllodes diaphoros (Otte, 2006), n. comb.
(Figs 1 A–J, 2)
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:28194 Amphiacusta diaphoros Otte, 2006: 369.
Type locality. Costa Rica, Prov. Heredia, 16 km SSE La Virgen, 10°16’N 84°05’W, 1050–1150m.
Type material. Holotype: Costa Rica, Prov. Heredia, 16 km SSE La Virgen, 10°16’N 84°05’W, 1050–1150m, 1 female, ii.2001, INBio-OET transect ALAS, INBio.
Examined material. Costa Rica, Finca Murillo, 1500m, forêt de brume, 14.iii.2005, jour, 1 male, fnLD1, litière (INBio), 1 female, fnLD26, litière (INBio); night, 3 females, fnLD51, 52, 53, litière (MNHN-EO- ENSIF 3564-3566); 15.iii.2005, jour, 1 male, fnLD1, litière; nuit, 2 males, fnLD34, 75, 2 females, fnLD77-78 (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3567-3568), 2 females, fnLD79, 80, litière (INBio); 16.iii.2005, jour, 1 female, fnLD3, litière; nuit, 2 females, fnLD38, 39, litière (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3569-3571); 17.iii.2005, jour, 3 males, fnLD12-14, 3 females, fnLD9-11, litière (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3572-3574); 18.iii.2005, jour, 1 male, fnLD2, litière (MNHN-EO- ENSIF 3575); nuit, 1 male, fnLD40, 2 females, fnLD38, 39, litière (INBio); 19.iii.2005, jour, 2 males, fnLD29, 30 (INBio), 3 females, fnLD1 (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3576), 28, 44, litière (INBio); nuit, 1 male, fnLD48, litière, 1 male, fnLD54, 1 female, fnLD53, chandelle creuse près ouverture (INBio), L. Desutter-Grandcolas.
Complement to description. TIII inner serrulation: no spine before spur 1, no spine between spurs 1 and 2, no spine in males, 0–1 spine in females (mean 0.1) between spurs 2 and 3, 0–1 spine in males (mean 0.3) and females (mean 0.2) between spurs 3 and 4, 0–4 spines in males (mean 2.4), 1–5 spines in females (mean 3.1) above spur 4; outer serrulation: no spine before spur 1, 0–1 spines in males (mean 0.5) and females (mean 0.4) between spurs 1 and 2, 1–2 spines in males (mean 1.1), 0–1 spines in females (mean 0.9) between spurs 2 and 3, 1–2 spines in males (mean 1.3) and females (mean 1.4) between spurs 3 and 4, 4–7 spines in males (mean 5.2) and females (mean 5.9) above spur 4. Basitarsomeres III with 1 in males and 0–2 in females (mean1.1) inner dorsal spine, and 2–5 in males (mean 3.4) and 3–4 in females (mean 3.6) outer dorsal spines, in addition to apical spines.
Coloration. Face dark brown, darker in males than in females; with a small yellowish spot under the inner margin of each antennal pit; cheeks yellow in females, darker in males; head dorsum with two small yellowish lines. Clypeus yellow with brown sides; mandibulae yellowish. Palpi whitish. Antennae light yellow at base (including scapes), light brown distally. Pronotum DD dark brown, the pyriform inscriptions lighter; LL dark brown on margins, lighter in central area, with a yellow spot in LL anterior angle. Abdomen dark brown, the cerci base and supra anal plate light brown. Legs light brown marked with brown; TI, TII with four indistinct brown rings; FI, FII with two faint brown rings in distal half; TIII with a wide sub basal and a smaller apical rings, a brown fleck at the level of each pair of subapical spurs; subapical spurs yellow, with brown base and tips; apical spurs yellow with brown tip. Basitarsomeres yellow in basal half, light brown in distal half; tarsomeres 3 brownish.
Male. Subgenital plate wider than long, distal margin bisinuate (Fig. 1 C).
Male genitalia. Ectophallic fold raised between pseudepiphallic arms (Fig. 1 F).
Female. Subgenital plate as on Fig. 1 G.
Female genitalia. Copulatory papilla slightly wider distally than basally; distal margin bisinuate (Fig. 1 H–J).
Measurements.
description: Published as part of Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2014, New taxa and data for Neotropical Phalangopsidae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), pp. 398-420 in Zootaxa 3866 (3) on pages 402-403, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/224587