Phalangopsina Chopard 1933
Creators: name: Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
name: Jaiswara, Ranjana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Phalangopsina

description: Phalangopsina Chopard, 1933
Phalangopsina Chopard, 1933a: 165.
Type species. Arachnopsis dubius Bolivar, 1900
Other species included. Phalangopsina palpata Chopard, 1969, P. b o li va r i Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. and possibly P. d i s c i f e r a Gorochov, 2003a. Phalangopsina (?) chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. and Phalangopsina (?) gravelyi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. are tentatively described in the genus Phalangopsina.
Remark. The type species of the genus has been tentatively described by Bolivar (1900 (1899)) in the genus Arachnopsis Saussure, 1878 on a series comprising an unspecified number of males and females, deposited in Bolivar’s and Pantel’s collections (now in MNCN and MNHN respectively), and originating from Maduré, Kodaikanal (collectors: Castets, Décoly).
Listing the types of Ignacio Bolivar, Mercedes Paris (1994) identified several putative male and female syntypes of P. dubia: one female identified “Arachnop. Dubius ” by Bolivar in Madrid, and one male and 3 females in Paris: 1/ one female labeled “ Type // Arachnopsis dubius // Mission Maduré”; 2/ one female labeled “ Arachnopsis dubius // Kod[aikanal] Dec[oly]“; 3/ one female labeled “Indes Or., P. Castets”; and 4/ one male, from Kod[aikanal] Dec[oly].
The male specimen revealed a Landrevinae and does not fit Bolivar’s description and measurements: it is not considered here as belonging to the original syntypic series; the male syntype mentioned by Bolivar has not been found yet in Pantel’s collection. The four females are considered here syntypes: in order to fix the species name, two conspecific females are designated here Lectotype (MNCN) and Paralectotype (MNHN) of P. dubia; the other two paralectotype females belong to two new species of Phalangopsina described here, P. bolivari Desutter- Grandcolas n. sp. and Phalangopsina (?) chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp.
Known distribution. Southern India.
Diagnosis. According to Bolivar (1900), Chopard (1933a) and type observation: Small to very small species with a wide fastigium (wider than scape) and transverse pronotum (less so in P. (?) chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp.). Ocelli arranged in a wide triangle, the distance between the lateral ocelli larger than the distance between the median and one lateral ocelli. Scape as long as wide (Figs 6 A, 8A), except in P. (?) chopardi Desutter- Grandcolas n. sp. (Fig. 8 H); TI without tympanum. TIII with four pairs of subapical spurs, the outers slightly longer than the inners and set less distally on TIII than inner spurs; three pairs of apical spurs, the dorsal the longest on both sides (Fig. 8 C, D, except in P. (?) chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. Fig. 8 I). Male with short, slightly overlapping (P. dubia) or not overlapping (P. d is ci fe r a) FWs, lacking a stridulatory apparatus. Metanotum glandular (P. d i s c i f e r a) or not (P. dubia). TIII spurs not modified. Male genitalia: pseudepiphallic sclerite with a wide median part, more or less reversed overhead, and two long lateral sclerites, clearly articulated in P. dubia; pseudepiphallic parameres very large, concave, making a kind of wide forceps (Fig. 6 D–F); ectophallic apodemes short and wide; ectophallic fold long and narrow, membranous; endophallic sclerite long and thin. Dorsal cavity lacking. Female apterous. Ovipositor longer than FIII. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla large, sclerotized and elongate, with a longer and thinner distal part (except in P. (?) chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp.).
Habitat. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure & Jaiswara, Ranjana, 2012, Phalangopsidae crickets from the Indian Region (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), with the descriptions of new taxa, diagnoses for genera, and a key to Indian genera, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3444 on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.209049