Afrophaloria amani Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp.
Creators: name: Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phalangopsidae
Afrophaloria
Afrophaloria amani

description: Afrophaloria amani Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp.
(Figs 1, 2 A, B, E, F, J, N, 3A–C, Table 2)
Type locality. Tanzania, Eastern Usambara mountains, Amani
Type material. Holotype. Tanzania, Eastern Usambara mountains, Amani, 1000 m, forêt sempervirente, 19.v.1995, 1 male, jour, fn26, litière (L. Desutter-Grandcolas), MNHN-EO- ENSIF 3695. Allotype. Same locality and collector as the holotype, 19.v.1995, 1 female, jour, fn10, litière, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3699. Paratypes, 4 M, 8F. Same locality and collector as the holotype, 16.v.1995, 2 females, jour, fn17, 18, litière, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3707- 3701; 17.v.1995, 1 male, jour, fn3, litière, molecular work 2014-LDG 0 37, MNHN-EO-ENSIF 3341; 19.v.1995, 1 male, jour, fn1, litière, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3697, 1 female, nuit, fn57, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3706; 21.v.1995, 1 male, jour, fn19, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3698; 22.v.1995, 1 female, nuit, fn16, litière, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3702, 1 female, nuit, fn11, sur plantes, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3705, 1 female, nuit, fn10, sur piste, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3700; 23.v.1995, 1 male, 2 females, jour, fn23, 8, 9, litière, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3696, 3703, 3704.
Diagnosis. Within the genus, Afrophaloria amani Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. can be identified by its massive pronotum, the ivory coloration of supra anal plate, tergites and cerci base in males (yellowish brown and not as contrasted in females), and its male and female genitalia.
Description.
In addition to the characters of the subfamily and genus:
Joint 4 of maxillary palpi slightly longer than joint 3 (Fig. 2 A, B). DD only slightly wider than long, posterior margin convex (Fig. 1 A, F). TIII without serrulation between apical and subapical spurs, and between subapical spurs (one examined female with one spine between outer subapical spurs 3 and 4); above subapical spurs, outer spines: five to eight (mean six) in males, five to eight (mean 6,4) in females; inner spines: one to four (mean 3) in males, zero to three (mean 1,9) in females. Basitarsomeres III quite long for the genus (Fig. 1 A, F, G), the longest inner apical spur reaching about three fourth of basitarsomere length; serrrulation: no inner spine in addition to apical one (one examined male with one additional inner spine); outer spines: three to five (mean 3,8) in males, one to four (mean three) in females
Coloration. Head dorsum brown, with four indistinct darker lines (behind each lateral ocellus and from the anterior angle of each eye: Fig. 1 F); ocelli ivory, a black spot behind the median ocellus (Fig. 1 B, C). Cheeks brown dorsally, yellowish along the eye, along their posterior margin, and in their lower half (Fig. 1 C). Face and mouthparts yellowish with indistinct brown pattern (Fig. 1 H). Maxillary palpi (Fig. 1 C), scapes (Fig. 1 B, H) and antennae (Fig. 1 A, F) yellowish, some lighter articles along the antennae, without a distinct color pattern. Pronotum dark brown, including the margins (Fig. 1 B); dorsal muscular inscriptions, parts of the dorsal disc and a spot in lateral anterior angle marked with yellowish, Fig. 1 B, C, G). Legs yellowish with some brownish patterns, with few brown spots at setae bases (Fig. 1 A, F, G): FI, FII with a faint distal ring, and a hardly distinct subdistal one; TI, TII somewhat darker, with four undistinct rings; FIII with undistinct distal ring and oblique lines; TIII light brown, lighter at base; tarsomeres yellowish, with a short brown ring basally and a longer one apically; TIII spurs brown on their basal half length, then yellowish with black apex. Tergites dark brown to black brown, the supra anal plate, sternites and subgenital plate lighter (see infra). Cerci dark brown with a light basal ring.
Male. Posterior margin of metanotum and tergites 1–4 somewhat lighter (Fig. 1 A). Supra anal plate wider than long, its distal part not particularly elongate; ivory, the median furrow and lateral spots light brown (Fig. 1 A, D). Subgenital plate short and not very low, distal margin straigth (Figs 1 E, 2E, F).
Male genitalia. Fig. 3 A–C. Upper part of pseudepiphallus narrow and thick. Pseudepiphallus membranous, except for a pair of lateral sclerites prolonged as thick hooks directed ventrally, these hooks not very long (Fig. 3 C), not going beyond the ectophallic fold; rami long and narrow, slightly curved; pseudepiphallic parameres very long, hardly sclerotized. Ectophallic apodemes short, curved (Fig. 3 A, B); dorsal and ventral sclerotization of epiectophallic invagination connected by the arc: (Fig. 3 A). Ectophallic fold very long, going well beyond pseudepiphallic hooks; sclerotized; apex widely split, asymmetrical, the left lobe (in dorsal view: Fig. 3 A) larger than the right lobe. Endophallic sclerite squared, prolonged distally on the ventral side of ectophallic fold (Fig. 3 B); endophallic apodemes and dorsal ectophallic valves very short.
Female. Coloration of abdomen often less regularly dark brown than in males (Fig. 1 F, G). Subgenital plate wider than long; apex deeply bisinuate (Fig. 2 J). Ovipositor shorter than TIII.
Female genitalia. Fig. 1 N. Copulatory papilla having the shape of a thin, half ring; spermathecal duct thick and short. Spermatheca thin and elongate.
description: Published as part of Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2015, Phalangopsidae crickets from Tropical Africa (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), with descriptions of new taxa and an identification key for African genera, pp. 451-496 in Zootaxa 3948 (3) on pages 461-462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/241857