Erioloides santiago Yong, 2019, new species
Creators: name: Yong, Sheyla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Erioloides
Erioloides santiago

description: Erioloides santiago new species   
Figures 1–3, 15, 19, 22. Table I  
"Genus unknown 6": Yong & Perez-Gelabert, 2014: 427.  
 Types. CUBA: Santiago de Cuba Province: Santiago de Cuba Municipality: Baconao: Playa Verraco (19°53'34"N - 75°34'32"W, 10 m a.s.l.); 18/April/2017; at night, on bushes; S. Yong, R. Teruel, E. Fonseca, J. L. Reyes; molted to adult on 20/May/2017; 1♀ holotype (SY, in ethanol 80%). Same data as holotype, but molted to adult on 5/June/2017; 1♀ paratype (SY, in ethanol 80%). Siboney (19°57'56"N - 75°42'38"W, 125 m a.s.l.); diurnal net-sweeping of vegetation; 25/October/2017; B. Lauranzón, J. L. Reyes; 1♀ juvenile paratype (SY, in ethanol 80%). Suburbs of Santiago de Cuba City; no more data; 1♀ paratype (SY, dry pinned). Palma Soriano Municipality: Presa Charco Mono (20°04'54"N - 76°00'31"W, 300 m a.s.l.); 8/December/ 2017; S. Yong, R. Teruel; 1 ♀ juvenile paratype (SY, in ethanol 80%).   
 Additional material examined. CUBA: Camagüey Province: Santa Cruz del Sur Municipality: Archipiélago de los Jardines de la Reina: Cayo Anclitas (20°46'54"N - 78°54'42"W, 2 m a.s.l.); 2/May/1971; L. F. de Armas; 1♂ (IES, dry pinned). Las Tunas: Manatí Municipality: Puerto Manatí (21°21'41"N - 76°49'34"W, 2 m a.s.l.); December /1988; L. R. Hernández; 1♂ (MNHNCu, dry pinned). Province Santiago de Cuba Province: Santiago de Cuba Municipality: Santiago de Cuba City; February /1930; P. Alayo; 1♂ (FZ, dry pinned). Cuabitas (20°03'59"N - 75°48'20"W, 120 m a.s.l.); January /1952; 1♀ (FZ, dry pinned). Versalles (20°03'59"N - 75°48'20"W, 100 m a.s.l.); June / 1971; I. García; 1♀ (IES, dry pinned). Note. See additional discussion on these specimens below, in Remarks section.   
 Diagnosis (Based mostly on females). Body slender and medium-sized for the genus (18–19 mm). Both sexes macropterous, tegmina lanceolate, over 4.0 times the length of abdomen. Head with tegument coarsely and densely punctate, lacking any keels. Fastigium moderately short (slightly shorter than scapus length), shaped as an equilateral triangle in lateral view and with tip acute. Eyes small and spherical. Pronotum almost as long as wide, coarsely punctate; longitudinal sulcus inconspicuous. Legs moderately slender, ventrally armed with minute spines. Supra-anal plate basically paraboloid, much wider than long; posterior margin trilobed. Female cerci unmodified, conical. Subgenital plate wider than long; posterior margin apically with two lateral digitiform projections and a median notch. Ovipositor broad and slightly curved upwards, slightly longer than abdomen; dorsal and ventral edges entirely smooth; tip blunt and truncate. Upper valves with a file of stretches along its dorsal edge.   
 Etymology. The selected epithet is a noun in apposition, taken from the toponym of both the province and municipality where the type-locality of this species is enclaved.
description: Published as part of Yong, Sheyla, 2019, Three new genera and four new species of katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Cuba and Hispaniola, Greater Antilles, pp. 222-256 in Ecologica Montenegrina 20 (2019) on pages 223-225, DOI: 10.37828/em.2019.20.19, http://zenodo.org/record/13359746