Toliaridectes wendenbaumi Hugel 2019, n. gen.
Creators: name: Hugel, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Toliaridectes
Toliaridectes wendenbaumi

description: Toliaridectes wendenbaumi n. gen. n. sp.
Fig. 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 28–30, 41–47, 56, 60–61, 68–69, 72, Tab. 2.
Toliaridectes wendenbaumi n. gen. n. sp., here described.
Holotype male. Madagascar, province Toliara, région Atsimo-Andrefana, Ambalamanga, confluence Ankolisky / Mangoky, Expédition Makay 2011 - camp 3, 21.675°S, 44.9933°E, 19–22.i.2011, S. Hugel leg. (2011 MADASH 429), MNHN (MNHN-EO-ENSIF10800).
Paratypes. Same as holotype (2011 MADASH 373, ♀ Allotype), MNHN (MNHN-EO-ENSIF10801). Same as holotype (2011 MADASH 428 ♂, 430 ♀, 431 ♀), coll. SH. Same as holotype (2011 MADASH 371 ♀), CAS (CASENT0872622). Madagascar, province Toliara, région Atsimo-Andrefana, Antsoa, rivière Androsi, Expédition Makay 2011 - camp 1, 21.596°S, 45.1131°E, 19–22.i.2011, S. Hugel leg. (2011 MADASH 190 ♀). [Madagascar, province Toliara, region Mandabe,] Besely (Mandabe), 11.v.1964, Madagascar Sud, D. Wintrebert Rec., ♂, MNHN. [Madagascar, province Toliara, region Atsimo-Andrefana,] Tulear, Manombo, 10-v-56, ♀, MNHN. [Madagascar, province Toliara, region Atsimo-Andrefana,] Sakaraha, Lambomakandro, III-56 A.R., ♀, MNHN.
Diagnosis. Color: hind femur with distinct shiny black longitudinal pattern on external (outer) field (Fig. 23, similar pattern in T. meridionalis n. gen. n. sp., pattern weaker in T. antsycurvis n. gen. n. sp.). Male. Xth abdominal tergite emargination as deep as wide (Fig. 43; similar in T. meridionalis n. gen. n. sp., wider in T. antsycurvis n. gen. n. sp.); paraprocts with a short wide projection (Fig. 42; long digitiform projection in T. meridionalis n. gen. n. sp., shorter digitiform projection in T. antsycurvis n. gen. n. sp.). Cercus median projection relatively short (Fig. 44; longer in T. antsycurvis n. gen. n. sp. and T. meridionalis n. gen. n. sp.). Subgenital plate longer than wide (Fig. 41; wider than long in T. meridionalis n. gen. n. sp. and T. antsycurvis n. gen. n. sp.). Titillators distal end pointing (Fig. 56; similar in T. meridionalis n. gen. n. sp., enlarged distally in T. antsycurvis n. gen. n. sp.). Female. Subgenital plate about as wide as long, with V-shaped emargination (Fig. 60; wider than long in T. meridionalis n. gen. n. sp. and T. antsycurvis n. gen. n. sp.). Ovipositor average for the genus (Fig. 61, Table 2).
Description. Size average for the genus (Table 2). Color: head with genae without distinct black pattern; pronotum folds with usually a light band edging the black band; hind femur with distinct shiny black longitudinal pattern on external (outer) field (Fig. 23). Male. Xth abdominal tergite emargination as deep as wide (Fig. 43); paraprocts with a shirt wide projection (Fig. 42). Cercus dorsal lobe broadly rounded; median projection relatively short, bilobate (Fig. 44–47). Subgenital plate longer than wide; with indistinct emargination; styli separated by about styli length (Fig. 41). Titillators distal end pointing; internal part shaped as inverted wide Y (Fig. 56). File with ca. 42 teeth (Fig. 30). Female. Subgenital plate longer than wide, with V shaped emargination (Fig. 60). Ovipositor average for the genus, ventral margin with a relatively long strait area (Fig. 61, Table 2).
Derivation of name. Named after Evrard Wendenbaum, founder of Naturevolution NGO who organized multiple field surveys in Makay.
description: Published as part of Hugel, Sylvain, 2019, First record of shield-backed katydids in Madagascar with the description of a new genus and three new species (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae Arytropteridini), pp. 546-560 in Zootaxa 4706 (4) on page 551, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4706.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3616903