Tripetalocera ferruginea Westwood, 1834

Storozhenko, Sergey Yu., 2013, Review of the subfamily Tripetalocerinae Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), Zootaxa 3718 (2), pp. 158-170 : 160

Tripetalocera ferruginea Westwood, 1834

Figs. 1–9 , 18, 19

Tripetalocera ferruginea Westwood, 1834: 444 , Tab. 22, fig. 3 [holotype – male, India: ‘Malabaria’ (=Chennai, the capital of state of Tamil Nadu); in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History]; Hancock, 1907a: 4; Hancock, 1907b: 213; Kirby, 1910: 1; Kirby, 1914: 12, figs. 15, 16; Willemse, 1930: 32, fig. 16; Günther, 1935: 257; Günther, 1938a: 300; Günther, 1942: 339; Steinmann, 1970: 215; Blackith, 1992: 195; Mahmood et al., 2007: 1283.

Acrydium (Tetrix) ferrugineum: Haan, 1842 –1844: 166, Pl. 22, fig. 11.

Material. Malaysia: North Borneo, Sabah State, Tambunan District, Trus Madi Mountain, 975 m, 25 April – 10 May 2006, 1 male, 3 females, 1 female larva of last instar, coll. P. Udovichenko (in the Zoological Institute, St.- Petersburg).

Measurements (in mm). Length of body (from anterior margin of fastigium of vertex to the apex of the abdomen) male 13.3, female 13.7–14.0 (without ovipositor); antenna male 7.3, female 7.0–7.5; pronotum male 13.0, female 14.0–14.8; tegmen male 1.5, female 1.5–1.7; hind wing male 7.5, female 8.5–8.6; fore femur male 2.5, female 2.8–3.1; mid femur male 2.7, female 2.9–3.1; hind femur male 5.1, female 5.7–5.8; ovipositor 1.7–1.9. Distribution. India, Malaysia (Penang, Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. Tripetalocera ferruginea. 1, female left antenna, dorsal view; 2, female head and anterior part of pronotum, dorsal view; 3, the same, lateral view; 4, female head, frontal view; 5, female fore femur, lateral view; 6, female apex of abdomen, lateral view; 7, the same, ventral view; 8, male apex of abdomen, lateral view; 9, the same, ventral view.

FIGURES 18 – 21. Tripetalocerini, male body. 18 – 19, Tripetalocera ferruginea, 18, lateral view; 19, dorsal view; 20 – 21, Tripetaloceroides tonkinensis, 20, dorsal view; 21, lateral view.