Aphonoides aspidoid, Zheng & Xin & Xie & Ma, 2021

Zheng, Yanna, Xin, Zhixia, Xie, Lingde & Ma, Libin, 2021, - Revision-of-the-cricket-subfamily-Podoscirtinae-Saussure, - 1878 - (Orthoptera: - Gryllidae) - from-China, Zootaxa 4995 (3), pp. 401-424 : 418

Aphonoides aspidoid sp.­nov.

(Figs. 12A; 16A–C)

Examined­materials. Holotype.­ 1 male. China: Guangdong, Nanling, Pingdingshan , Aug. 6, 2019, He, Zhixin and Zhang, Tao coll. ( SNNU) ; Paratypes.­ 2 males. China: Hunan, Langzhou, Mangshan , Oct. 6, 2004, Xie, Lingde coll. ( SNNU) .

Measurements­ (mm).­ Male­ (n=3): ­ BL 13.92±2.74; HL 2.64±0.23; HW 3.65±0.57; PL 2.84±0.92; PW 3.74±0.53; FWL ­ 8.73±0.38; HFL 7.38±0.07; HTL 7.13±1.01

Etymology.­ The species name refers to the epiphallic lateral lobes blunt apically.

Description.­Male: Head almost as wide as pronotum. Vertex broad and flattened, armed with densely pubescent. Frontal rostrum slightly convex in front view, inclined dorsally and ventrally. Median ocellus smallest of the three, ovoid; lateral ocellus transversely ovoid. End section of maxillary palpi almost equal to the length of the third; end section of labial palpi almost equal to the total length of remainder sections.

Pronotum broad and flattened, anterior margin straight, posterior convex and middle of posterior margin angularly convex; median groove distinct. Longitudinal veins of tegmina paralleled. Hindwings longer than tegmina, uncovered portion about half length of hind femur.

Inner tympanum shaped as elongate oval; outer tympanum absent. Hind tibiae evenly distributed with spines, armed with spurs distally (numbered 5:4); outer apical spurs two (equal in length) and the inner three (the dorsal one longest, two time longer than longest; middle one equal to length of longest; ventral one shortest).

FIGURE­16.­ Genitalia of A. aspidoid sp.­nov. A. dorsal view; B. lateral view; C. ventral view.

Genitalia.­ Lateral lobes of epiphallus trapezoidal. Median lobes of epiphallus small, apically acute. Ectoparamere proximally rod-like, not straight; apically expanded, shaped as baseball glove, with anterior side curved outward. Ectoparamere band-shaped in lateral view, included angle between ectoparamere and lateral lobes of epiphallus form an acute angle. Guiding rods shovel-like, apically acute.

Coloration.­ Body brown. Clypeus and labrum yellowish. Tegmina brown.

Female unknown.

Remarks. This species resembles Aphonodies sabahi Gorochov, 2007 in features of body and genitalia, but are distinct in the epiphallus and ectoparamere. A. aspidoid sp.­nov. differs from A. sabahi in shape of ectoparamere, which of the new proximally not straight and what of the other is straight; ectoparamere of the new armed with outside margin apically concave and the other with inner margin concave. Besides, epiphallic lateral lobes apically inward truncated and what of the other outward truncated.