Paranisitra longipes Chopard 1925
Creators: name: Baroga-Barbecho, Jessica B.
name: Yap, Sheryl A.
name: Tan, Ming Kai
name: Robillard, Tony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllidae
Paranisitra
Paranisitra longipes

description: Paranisitra longipes Chopard, 1925
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Paranisitra longipes Chopard, 1925: 318 (original description). Gorochov 2009: 436 (redescription); Robillard & Desutter- Grandcolas 2004: 658 (morphological phylogeny), 2006 (molecular phylogeny), 2008: 67 (classification); Nattier et al. 2011 (molecular phylogeny); Robillard & Yap 2015: 85; Baroga et al. 2016: 94 (taxonomic key); Vicente et al. 2017: 2203 (biogeography).
Type material. Holotype male. Philippines. [Luzon Island, Laguna], Mt. Makiling, Baker, coll. Karny, 1266 (MNHN-EO-ENSIF1192) [examined]. Allotype female. Philippines. same information as HT (MNHN-EO- ENSIF446) [examined].
Other material examined. Philippines. Luzon [Island]: Laguna: Los Baños, Mt. Makiling: 1♂ (JBB238), 15.ii.2014, coll. A.K. Amarga & E.C. Rubico (IWEP Taxo Lab-02978); 2♀ (JBB019-020), 3♂ (JBB021–023), 15– 16.ii.2014, coll. N.M. Barbecho (UPLBMNH); 1♀ (JBB014), 06.i.2014, coll. J.B. Baroga (UPLBMNH); 1♀ (JBB109), 15.viii.2014, coll. J.B. Baroga (UPLBMNH); Plot 3, 1♀ (JBB144), 20.v.2015, coll. N.M. Barbecho (UPLBMNH); 300 m, 1♂ (JBB281), 19.v.1904, coll. S. Rosario (UPLBMNH ORT-01124); 3500 m, 1♂ (JBB283), 3500 ft, 1♀ (JBB285), 26.iv.1958, coll. C.E. Mendoza (UPLBMNH ORT-01126, 01128), 1500 ft, 1♀ (JBB286), 26.iv.1958, coll. B.D. Morallo (UPLBMNH ORT-01129). Mount Makiling, base, 14°09'12,9''N 121°14'05,0''E, 168 m, 2011–2014, T. Robillard, 5♀, 7♂, 9 juveniles (MNHN); Los Banos, Laguna, Mount Makiling, base, Aguila base, to summit #2, 14°08'15.2"N 121°11'47.7"E, 2011-2014, 1♂, 4♀, 1 juvenile (MNHN). Makiling Botanic Garden: 1♀ (JBB244), 02.iv.2016, coll. J.E. Umerez (IWEP Taxo Lab-30231); 1♂ (JBB274), 26.xii.1985, coll. E. Oratai (UPLBMNH ORT-01117). UPLB, Pook ni Mariang Makiling, 1♀ (JBB178), 18.iii.2014, coll. I.J. Llanto (UPLBMNH). Los Baños: 50 m, 1♀ (JBB287), 12.v.1964, 1♂ (JBB282), 13.v.1964, coll. R.R. Reyes (UPLBMNH ORT-01130, 01125); 1♂ juvenile (JBB288), 28.ii.1976, coll. H. Baguinon (UPLBMNH ORT-01131); 1♂ (JBB236), 25.i.2014, coll. Saranya S. (IWEP Taxo Lab-02981). Dampalit Falls, 1♀ (JBB179), 11.i.2014, coll. J.B. Baroga (UPLBMNH). Cavinti: cave, 3♂ (JBB194, JBB183, JBB190), 24.v.2014, coll. N.M. Barbecho (UPLBMNH ORT-00819–00821); night, 1♀ (JBB195), 7♂ (JBB188, JBB184, JBB187, no code, JBB191, JBB185, JBB193), 26.v.2014, coll. N.M. Barbecho (UPLBMNH ORT-00863–00867, 00872-00874); 1♂ (JBB186), 1♂ juvenile (JBB199), 27.v.2014, coll. N.M. Barbecho (UPLBMNH ORT-00890–00891). Majayjay, 1♂ juvenile (JBB235), 01.iii.2009, coll. N.R. Barnacha (IWEP Taxo Lab-02982). [Quezon Province]: [Real], NBG [National Botanic Garden]: 10.ii.1985 1♂ (JBB278), coll. C.L. Dayanon (UPLBMNH ORT-01121), 1♂ (JBB234), 15.ii.1985 (IWEP Taxo Lab-02990); 2♂ (JBB276–277), 18.ii.1984, coll. N. Hasan (UPLBMNH ORT-01119–01120); 2000 ft., 1♂ (JBB279), 2.xii.1976, C.R. Baltazar (UPLBMNH ORT-01122); grasses, 1♂ (JBB280), 22.iii.1976, P.L. Bugayong (UPLBMNH ORT-01123). Polillo Island: 1♂ (JBB232), 17.iii.2009, coll. R.E. Bayot (IWEP Taxo Lab- 02988); 1♀ (JBB241), 08.iv.2016, coll. P.C.T. Salazar (IWEP Taxo Lab-30234), Pinaglubayan: 2♂ (JBB031-032), 4–6.vi.2014, coll. J.B. Baroga, F. Signabon & S.A. Yap (UPLBMNH). Real, UPLB Land Grant, 1♀ (JBB364), 1♂ (JBB365), 20–24.i.2016, coll. K.O. Abenis (UPLBMNH). [Camarines Sur]: Mt. Iriga, 500–600 m: 1♂ (JBB367), 10.iv.1962, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1♂ (JBB369), 19.iv.1962, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1♂ (JBB370), 23.iv.1962, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM). Mt. Isarog: 20 km of Naga, 500–600 m, light trap, 1♂ (JBB371), 6.iv.1963, coll. H.M. Torrevillas, (BPBM); 500–600 m, 1♂ (JBB373), 11.iv.1963, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 750–900 m, 2♂ (JBB377–378), 4–7.iv.1963, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 750–850 m, 1♂ (JBB379), 8–12.v.1963, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 750–850 m, 1♂ (JBB380), 15–17.v.1963, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 800 m, light trap, 1♂ (JBB383), 28.iv.1965, coll. H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM). [Albay]: Mt. Malinao: 1♂ (JBB025), 1♀ (JBB175), 1–3.iii.2014, coll. J.B. Baroga (UPLBMNH); 1♂ (JBB007), 24–25.x.2013, coll. S.A. Yap (UPLBMNH); 1♂ (JBB233), 24.x.2013, coll. A.K. Amarga & J.M. Briz (IWEP Taxo Lab-02983); no data, 1♂ (JBB284) (UPLBMNH ORT-01127).
Type locality. Philippines, Luzon Island, Laguna, Mount Makiling.
Distribution. Philippines, Luzon Island: Laguna Province: Mt. Makiling, Makiling Botanic Garden, Dampalit Falls (new record), Majayjay (new record), Cavinti (new record). Quezon Province: Real (new record), Polillo Island (new record). Camarines Sur Province: Mt. Iriga [formerly known as Mt. Asog] (new record); Mt. Isarog (new record); Albay Province: Mt. Malinao (new record).
Diagnosis. General shape slender, body not spotted (unlike in P. maculata); coloration usually yellow brown with more or less black and yellow patterns. Face with a wide yellow transverse band as in P. leytensis and P. maculata; differing from P. leytensis by larger size and male genitalia with pseudepiphallic lophi wider and rounded, and from P. maculata by less spotted body coloration.
description: Published as part of Baroga-Barbecho, Jessica B., Yap, Sheryl A., Tan, Ming Kai & Robillard, Tony, 2019, Taxonomic review of the genus Paranisitra Chopard (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae: Nisitrini) with description of a new species from Mindanao, pp. 81-96 in Zootaxa 4568 (1) on pages 83-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/2599264