Neocurtilla ingrischi, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2015

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2015, The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae), Zootaxa 3985 (4), pp. 451-490 : 477

Neocurtilla ingrischi n. sp.

(figs. 74–78, 90–93, 106–109)

Diagnosis. Sub circular ocelli (figs. 74, 106), wings covering all the way to the base of the seventh tergite, stridulating file with 39 teeth (fig. 78). Dorsal margin of the transversal sclerite triangle-shaped, acute, latero-basal plate of ectophallus with a dorsal, sharp projection (fig. 90).

Holotype. ♂. Colombia, Meta, Villavicencio, Finca la Libertad, 500 m. (MUD).

Paratype. ♀. Colombia, Cundinamarca, La Palma. (MUD).

Description. Mid-sized body, brownish. Sub circular ocelli, small, interocellar distance five times the width of an ocelli (fig. 74). Pronotum ovoid, frontal projection of the hind femora elongated and not very wide (fig. 76). Basal process lens shaped, moving dactyls soft, moderately elongated; fixed dactyls slightly acute, dorsal margin of the inferior fixed dactyl with an acute undulation (fig. 75). Tegminas covering the upper half of the abdomen, wing venation as in figure 77, stridulating file with 39 teeth (fig. 78), wings do not surpass the abdomen and cover the base of the seventh abdominal tergite. Phallic complex: Epiphallus: Apex of median prolongation rectangular and constricted, wider than long; distal margin of median prolongation not projected. Ventral margin of the transversal sclerite straight. Dorsal margin of the transversal sclerite acute. Ectophallus: Latero-basal plate with a dorsal, acute projection (figs. 90–93).

Female: Similar to the male, but a little bigger, frons, foreleg, pronotum and wing venation as in figures 106– 109.

Etymology. Dedicated to Dr. Sigfrid Ingrisch, for his contributions to the taxonomy of Ortphoptera.

Measurements (mm) (♂/♀). Tl: 22/23, P: 8/8.5, Teg: 7.2/8.5, Hf: 9/6, Ht: 5/4.

Comments. The species here described is different from N. hexadactyla in the development of the hind wings, ocelli shape and genital structure. N. ingrischi n. sp. is very similar to the specimens presented as N. hexadactyla with short flight wings by Frank & McCoy (2014), if they are indeed the same, the zoogeographical hypothesis put forth by these authors and Nickle & Castner (1984) for N. hexadactyla , should be revisited and possibly suggest that the invasion towards the Caribbean islands and Florida has not taken place with only one species, but with another, misidentified one and described here as N. ingrischi n. sp.