Makalapobius, Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2021

Hugel, Sylvain & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2021, New intertidal crickets from Comoros and Mascarene islands (Orthoptera Trigonidiidae: Nemobiinae: Burcini), Zootaxa 4995 (1), pp. 1-26 : 7-10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:35135437-CE87-4D3F-AEA4-9821A6AFDFCC
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879D-2E6A-FF90-FF70-FB2E50809E5B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Makalapobius
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Makalapobius View in CoL masihu n. gen. n. sp.

( Figs. 12–18 View FIGURES 12–18 ; 22–24 View FIGURES 19–24 ; 77 View FIGURE 77 ; Tab. 2)

Makalapobius masihu n. gen. n. sp., here described.

Holotype. Male. Comores, Grande Comores, Moroni, Itsandra , plage de galets, de sable et de corail, S11°41’04” E043°15’40”; 21.VIII.2010; S. Hugel & L. Desutter-Grandcolas leg. ( LDG295 ), MNHN ( MNHN-EO-EN- SIF 12147). GoogleMaps

Allotype. Female. Comores, Grande Comores, Moroni, Itsandra , plage de galets, de sable et de corail, S11°41’04” E043°15’40”; 21.VIII.2010; S. Hugel & L. Desutter-Grandcolas leg. ( LDG296 ), MNHN ( MNHN-EO- ENSIF12148 ). GoogleMaps

Other specimens (non type material). 1 juvenile, same as the holotype, S. Hugel & L. Desutter-Grandcolas leg. ( LDG 297 ), MNHN .

Distribution. South Western Indian Ocean, Comoros, Ngazidja (Grande Comore).

Diagnosis. This species is characterized by its color: very dark, particularly abdomen (light with dark patterns in M. aigrettensis n. gen. n. sp.); its relatively large size (BL> 9.5 mm vs. <9.5 in M. aigrettensis n. gen. n. sp.); its male genitalia: pseudepiphallus relatively long in dorsal view and narrow in side view for the genus; apical lophi regularly narrowed toward apex in side view (unlike M. aigrettensis n. gen. n. sp. with shorter and less very narrow pseudepiphallus, and lophi rounded in side view).

Description. In addition to generic characters. Color. Head ( Figs 12–13 View FIGURES 12–18 ): Face with black patterns below the eyes converging to clypeus; semicircular area below antennae black; face black patterns surrounding a light yellow triangle pointing upwards; palpi light yellow; genae light yellow; tip of fastigium black dorsally; semicircular area dorsal to antennae with dark pattern; occiput dark yellow. Thorax ( Figs 12–18 View FIGURES 12–18 ): Pronotum DD very dark with two light lateral spots near anterior margin in male holotype ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–18 ); DD light yellow with black lateral spots near anterior margin and with two small posterior black spots near midline in female allotype ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 12–18 ); LL black, anterior ventral margin light yellow. Abdomen dark in male holotype, with few light spots in female allotype. Legs ( Figs. 12, 14 View FIGURES 12–18 ): yellow with dark bandings; FIII lateral side with dark basis, with 3 transverse dark bandings; TIII darker than light part of FIII.

Male. Wings. FW short and truncated straight. The two anterior-most chords delineating a short D-shaped cell ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 12–18 arrow). Subgenital plate. Distorted in the only male available. Apex trilobated: median lobe less sclerotized but as high as the lateral lobes; lateral lobes more rounded ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 12–18 ). Genitalia ( Figs. 22–24 View FIGURES 19–24 ). Pseudepiphallus in dorsal view: very narrow with parallel margins; in side view: very elongated, very lightly curved upwards, with clear enlargement near the apex at the upward bent; apex with rounded contiguous distal lobes. Rami: short and very wide (side view), ventral margin linear; dorsal margin with two very short dorsal bumps. Female. SGP hind margin shallowly concave, with a narrow median emargination. Ovipositor ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 12–18 ) with a subapical gap between dorsal and ventral valves.