Tafalisca hugeli Campos & Desutter-Grandcolas 2020, n. sp.
Creators: name: Campos, Lucas Denadai De
name: Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Tafalisca
Tafalisca hugeli

description: Tafalisca hugeli n. sp.
(Figs 1A, B; 5-7)
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TYPE LOCALITY. — Mitaraka, French Guiana.
ETYMOLOGY. — Species dedicated to our colleague and friend Sylvain Hugel (CNRS, Strasbourg), who collected crickets during the 2015 “Planète revisitée” expedition in the Tumuc-Humac mountains.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. French Guiana • ♂; Monts Tumuc- Humac, Massif du Mitaraka; 54°44.768”O, 2°23.5494”N; C100; 350 m – 54°44’19”O, 2°23’3664”N; C 1000; 415 m; 23.II.2015 - 10.III.2015; F. Legendre & S. Hugel leg.; night; Planète revisitée Guyane 2015, 2015 GUY SH 188; Molec 2016 LDG 553; MNHN- EO-ENSIF10877; MNHN.
Paratypes. 3♂. French Guiana • 1♂; same data as for holotype; 2015 GUY SH 167; MNHN-EO-ENSIF10878; MNHN • 1♂; Monts Tumuc-Humac, Massif du Mitaraka, vers sommet en Cloche; 54°45’41”O, 2°23’49”N; 370 m – 54°46’46”O, 2°23’29”N; 470 m; 23.II.2015 - 10. III.2015; F. Legendre & S. Hugel leg., night; Planète revisitée Guyane 2015, 2015 GUY SH 414; MNHN-EO- ENSIF10879; MNHN • 1♂; same data as for previous paratype, 2015 GUY SH 374; MNHN-EO-ENSIF10880; MNHN.
DIAGNOSIS. — This species is separated from the other species of Tafalisca by the following characters: antennomeres yellowish with some isolated dark brown ones. Male: FWs light brown with several dark brown, almost black, spots; TIII apical and subapical spurs and spines yellow with dark brown apex and basis; metanotum with two median projections, drop-shaped with rounded tip in dorsal view; PCu vein with c. 20 very tiny stridulatory teeth ventrally. Male genitalia: MLophi very short, posterior margin rounded; PsP inclined inwards in ventral view, posterior half larger than anterior; EndSc longer than wide, posterior margin rounded, lateral margins folded ventrally.
DESCRIPTION
General morphology.
Body. Medium to large size, general coloration reddish-brown with black brown spots, covered by bristles.
Head. Occiput and vertex covered by small bristles, reddishbrown. Fastigium as long as wide, pubescent, reddish-brown (Fig. 5 A-C). Three ocelli, median very reduced, almost in the same line as lateral ones in frontal view; lateral ocelli rounded. Frons median region covered by yellowish bristles, reddishbrown (Fig. 5C). Eyes almost as long as wide in lateral view, marginal ommatids light brown, others dark brown almost black (Fig. 5B, C). Antennal scape longer than wide, inner margin with yellowish bristles, light reddish-brown; antennomeres yellowish with some isolated dark brown ones. Gena reddishbrown in frontal and lateral views. Mandibles medium brown, apex darker. Epistomal suture, clypeus, and labrum medium brown (Fig. 5C). Maxillary palpi pubescent, covered by yellowish bristles; articles reddish-brown, apex light brown; article 5 larger than other articles; articles 5, 4, and 3 almost same-sized.
Pronotum. DD slightly wider than long, covered by whitish bristle, reddish-brown. DD cephalic margin slightly concave, with brownish bristles; caudal margin somewhat convex, with brownish bristles (Fig. 5A). LL reddish-brown; ventro-cephalic angle rounded; ventro-caudal angle gradually ascendant in lateral view (Fig. 5B).
Wings. FWs covering the entire abdomen; covered by tiny bristles, light brown with several dark brown almost black spots, veins light to medium brown. Lateral field with dark brown veins (Fig. 5A, B). HWs longer than FWs in dorsal and lateral views.
Legs. Legs I and II with yellowish bristles. FI and FII light reddish-brown, apical margins darker.TI and TII with small area not covered by bristles, lighter that TI on dorsal side of proximal region; inner and outer tympana absent.TI and TII dark brown. TI with three apical spurs: two ventral samesized; one dorsal, inner, longer than ventral spurs. TII with three apical spurs: two ventral, same-sized; one dorsal, inner, longer than ventral spurs. FIII longer than TIII; with yellowish bristles, light reddish-brown, darker apically (Fig. 5E). TIII dark brown, with yellowish bristles.TIII subapical spurs 5/4, with three spines between each inner and outer pair of successive spurs, sometimes two spines between first two spurs; seven spines above subapical spurs on both inner and outer TIII margins; apex of TIII subapical spurs slightly curved. TIII apical spurs 3/3, longer on inner side; inner apical spurs: dorsal the longest (iad), median shorter than dorsal (iam), ventral the smallest (iav) (iad>iam>iav); outer apical spurs: median longest (oam), dorsal slightly shorter (oad), ventral almost same size of dorsal (oav) (oam>oad>oav). TIII apical and subapical spurs and spines yellow with apex and basis dark brown (Fig. 5A, B, E). Basitarsus dorsal spines 3/1, apical spine the longest; inner apical spur almost as long as basitarsus, outer apical spur slightly shorter than inner apical spur. Basitarsus medium brown.
Abdomen. Tergites slightly pubescent, medium brown. Cerci pubescent, medium brown, marbled dark brown. Supra anal plate dark brown crossed horizontally by a medium light brown band; posterior margin rounded (Fig. 5F).
Male
Morphology. Metanotum with two median projections, drop-shaped in dorsal view, tip rounded; antero-lateral regions inflated, without bristles; medio-posterior region somewhat elevated as in Tafalisca elongata elongata n. comb. (Fig. 5D). FWs bearing 7-8 parallel veins, reticulated; dorsal field without stridulatory apparatus; PCu vein curved inwards on anterior region, with c. 20 vestigial stridulatory teeth ventrally. Lateral field with c. 7 parallel veins, parallel to dorsal field in lateral view. Subgenital plate longer than wide, posterior margin somewhat concave, strongly pubescent; medium brown with yellow bristles (Fig. 5G).
Male genitalia (Figs 6, 7). Pseudepiphallus: pseudepiphallic sclerite apex slightly upcurved in lateral view, anterior margin concave in dorsal view. LLophi thinner than MLophi in ventral view, their apex curved inwards, inner margin of anterior region somewhat rounded in ventral view. MLophi very short, shorter than LLophi in dorsal view, posterior margin rounded. PsP well sclerotized, inclined inwards in ventral view, shorter than pseudepiphallic sclerite, not surpassing its posterior margin; posterior half larger than anterior, inner margins rounded. R elongated, flattened laterally, longer than pseudepiphallic sclerite, anterior half wider than posterior half. Ectophallic invagination: EctAp surpassing the anterior margin of pseudepiphallic sclerite, almost straight in lateral view. Arc not complete, directed posteriorly in dorsal and ventral views; ventral projections of ectophallic invagination shorter than EctAp in ventral view. EctF membranous almost no discernible. Endophallus: EndSc longer than wide, shorter than EctAp, posterior margin rounded, lateral margins folded ventrally; EndAp shorter than EndSc.
Female
Unknown.
Measurements (mm)
Males (n = 4, holotype and paratypes): HW, 4.3 ± 0.2 (4- 4.7); IOD, 2; PL, 3.72 ± 0.2 (3.5-3.9); PW, 4.4 ± 0.2 (4-4.6); FWL, 16.75 ± 0.95 (16-18); FWW, 4.37 ± 0.37 (4-4.9); HWL, 18.6 ± 0.8 (17.9-19.7); LFIII, 12.5 ± 0.36 (12.1-12.9); WFIII, 3.87 ± 0.32 (3.4-4.1); LTIII, 11.67 ± 0.25 (11.4-12); LBtarsIII, 1.82 ± 0.23 (1.5-2).
description: Published as part of Campos, Lucas Denadai De & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2020, The Paroecanthini crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae) from French Guiana, pp. 355-398 in Zoosystema 42 (20) on pages 362-365, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a20, http://zenodo.org/record/3962941