Eugryllacris gandaki Ingrisch 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllacrididae
Eugryllacris

description: Eugryllacris gandaki sp. nov.
Figs. 5A, 7 A–B, 9D, 9I
Eugryllacris panteli poultoniana Ingrisch (1987) nec Griffini, 1909h
Material examined. Holotype (female): Nepal: Prov. Gandaki, nordöstlich Rupa Tal (Lake Rupa), elev. 600–700 m (28°10'N, 84°8'E), 23–24.x.1983, leg. S. Ingrisch (Bonn ZFMK).
Diagnosis. The new species is similar to E. poultoniana, but differs by the female seventh abdominal sternite that has only a very short apical projection that is not covering the base of the subgenital plate and by the shape of the subgenital plate, which has a very wide base and terminates into two long, diverging and upcurved projections while in E. poultoniana it is not widened at base and terminates into two short sub-angular lobes.
Description. Medium large species (Fig. 9D). Head: Face ovoid; fastigium verticis about twice as wide as scapus; ocelli indistinct; fastigium frontis separated from fastigium verticis by a very fine suture; a pair of short, weak furrows, starting at internal angle of the antennal scrobae, outline the fastigium frontis; subocular furrows present (Fig. 5A). Abdominal tergite three with with two rows of few minute spaced stridulatory pegs (each row 5).
Wings little surpassing hind knees (Fig. 9D). Tegmen: Radius with two branches, both forked near tip; media anterior fused in basal area with radius; media posterior absent; cubitus anterior forks before mid-length into two veins, CuA1 and CuA2; cubitus posterior undivided, free throughout; with 5 anal veins.
Legs: Fore coxa with a rather large spine at fore margin; fore and mid femora unarmed; fore and mid tibiae with four pairs of large, on mid tibiae comparatively short, ventral spines and one pair of smaller ventral spurs; hind femur with 7 external and 3–4 internal spines on ventral margins; hind tibia with spaced spines on both dorsal margins, ventral margins with one pre-apical spine each; with 3 apical spurs on both sides.
Coloration. General color discolored brownish (green when alive); vertex unicolored; disc of pronotum unicolored, hind margin hardly darker. Legs of general color. Face green; eyes red brown; tip of labrum brown; mandibles in basal area and internal side yellowish, towards tip black. Tegmen discolored (probably green) semitransparent with green veins; in apical half of tegmen cells with dark brown flecks; hind wing semi-transparent white to light brownish with brown veins and veinlets; cells with large dark brown spots.
Male unknown.
Female. Seventh abdominal sternite wider than long; apical margin in middle with a short conical process that fits in the base of a medial furrow of the subgenital plate. Subgenital plate at base distinctly wider than preceding sternites; after about basal third strongly constricted but before apex apico-laterally extended into two long cones with subacute tip, apical margin in between concave; central area elevated and with a deep medial furrow from base to apical margin; apical cones pointing latero-dorsad (Figs. 7 A–B). Base of ovipositor with a flattened protuberance that fits in size the space embraced by a process of the subgenital plate (Fig. 7A). Ovipositor upcurved, especially in subbasal area, margins slightly and gradually narrowing towards tip; surface with lateral furrow; with apical widening; tip subacute (Fig. 9I).
Measurements (1 female).—body w/wings: 36; body w/o wings: 29; pronotum: 6.5; tegmen: 24; tegmen width: 9; hind femur: 17; antenna: 145; ovipositor: 16 mm.
Etymology. Named after the type locality; noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2018, New taxa and records of Gryllacrididae (Orthoptera, Stenopelmatoidea) from South East Asia and New Guinea with a key to the genera, pp. 1-278 in Zootaxa 4510 (1) on pages 27-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4510.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10072806