Ultragryllacris rubricapitis Bin et Bian 2021, stat. nov.
Creators: name: Dawwrueng, Pattarawich
name: Gorochov, Andrei V.
name: Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllacrididae
Ultragryllacris
Ultragryllacris rubricapitis

description: Ultragryllacris rubricapitis Bin et Bian, 2021, stat. nov.
Figs. 33–34, 42–43, 51–52, 59–60, 68, 76–77
Ultragryllacris pulchra rubricapitis Bin et Bian, 2021; Lu et al., 2023
Materials examined. Known only from the original description (Bin & Bian, 2021) and one paper with additional geographical data (Lu et al., 2023).
Discussion. This species is known only from China (Holotype: male, China, Yunnan, Mengla, Mengxing, 6 August 2021, coll. by Ping Yang. Paratypes: 2 males and 2 females with same data as in holotype). Later, Lu with co-authors recorded this species from another locality of China (Yunnan, Simao, Nanping). After we studied the description of holotype and paratype as well as the figures given by them in original description, we decided to raise the taxonomic status of this subspecies to full species by the diagnosis here: The coloration of the body parts (Head reddish purple; fore and mid tibia light color; base of dorsal spines on hind tibia without dark areas, whereas the holotype of U. pulchra with lighter head; fore and mid tibia and base of dorsal spines on hind tibia with blackish ornaments), the process of male 9 th abdominal tergite slightly shorter and wider in apical part than U. pulchra; female subgenital plate with distinctly narrowed and transverse sclerotized band on basal part with arcuate apex, whereas in U. pulchra, its subgenital plate with narrowed and transverse sclerotized band with subtruncate apex; ovipositor slightly curved upward began at near basal part, whereas in U. pulchra, its ovipositor almost straight. We combined these characters for made the decision to raise this subspecies to full species. The Simao’s population differs from Mengla’s population (holotype and paratypes) in the following characters: face brownish yellow; pronotum with brownish margins, anterior margin with 2 connected black spots; fore tibiae brownish yellow with black spot at basal area; process of male ninth abdominal tergite clearly narrowing to distinctly narrower apical part (vs. this process sub-rectangular in dorsal view, i.e. its apical part wider, and lateral edges of its distal half more or less parallel); posteromedian notch of male subgenital plate more distinct (larger); female subgenital plate somewhat narrower, with larger (wider and less thin) basal sclerotized stripe and with truncated but not widely rounded apex (see Figs. 34, 43, 52, 60, 77) here and photographs from Lu et al., 2023: figs 10–12). Possibly this Simao’s population belongs to different subspecies or even species.
description: Published as part of Dawwrueng, Pattarawich, Gorochov, Andrei V. & Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon, 2023, Revision of the genus Ultragryllacris (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Gryllacridinae), with description of new species, pp. 445-458 in Zootaxa 5389 (4) on page 452, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10417323