Habetia pinnigera, Ingrisch, 2021

Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2021, Revision of the genera Habetia Kirby, 1906 and Parahabetia gen. nov. from New Guinea (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Agraeciini), Zootaxa 5020 (2), pp. 201-256 : 244

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4FF882DF-334F-49C8-A576-4192B5F2654C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5223251
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA08E75D-AA14-8075-FDC0-36FC95226925
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Habetia pinnigera
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Habetia pinnigera View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 2D View FIGURE 2 , 4F View FIGURE 4 , 6I View FIGURE 6 , 7I–J View FIGURE 7 , Map 1(14).

Holotype (female): Papua New Guinea: Madang, Madang, elev. 5 m (5°15’S, 145°50’E), 22.x.1958 on pandanus, leg. J.L. Gressitt —depository: Bernice B. Bishop Museum, Honolulu ( BPBM). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. The new species differs from all other species of the genus so far known by the strongly elevated central area of the female subgenital plate from which a bulging basal area is, in lateral view, obliquely ascending from base to nearly mid-length of the plate, the lateral areas are otherwise compressed and running as a broad lateral band along both sides of the elevated central area leaving only the acute apical projections without rim. This shape is somewhat similar to that in H. quatrispina sp. nov., in which however the transverse basal bulge and the lateral rims are less strongly expressed, and the rims end into distinct spines while in H. pinnigera sp. nov. they appear in ventral view as wing-like expansions.

Description. Coloration of face uniformly pale, of general color including mandibles and antennal scrobae, only narrow lateral rims of genae and of mandibles darkened ( Fig. 4F View FIGURE 4 ). Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: (1) a 7, p 7–9; (2) a 7–8, p 2–3; (3) a 15–16, p 1–21 (n=1).

Male unknown.

Female. Subgenital plate in basal area with a transverse bulge that is narrowed in middle, swollen on both sides with the swollen area continued onto dorso-lateral areas; oblique proximal surface of subgenital plate encircled by the bulge membranous ( Fig. 7J View FIGURE 7 ); on distal side of bulge, ventral surface in central area strongly convex and terminating into a pair of little incurved but strongly upcurved projections with apical margin between these projections truncate ( Fig. 6I View FIGURE 6 ); laterally, convex central area bordered by wide, compressed dorso-lateral expansions which, in lateral view, are flattened behind basal bulge and largely extended but obliquely narrowed into the apical cones ( Fig. 7I–J View FIGURE 7 ). Ovipositor about as long as body; behind basal constriction dorsal margin convex, markedly but not very strongly elevated in middle and narrowing again towards sub-obtuse tip ( Fig. 2D View FIGURE 2 ).

Measurements (1 female).—Body w/wings: 35; body w/o wings: 30; pronotum: 8.5; tegmen: 25; hind femur: 22.5; antenna: 90; ovipositor length: 31; ovipositor height: 2.1 mm.

Etymology. from Latin pinniger, pinnigera = winged. The name of the new species refers to the long and wide, flattened lateral expansions that run along the lateral margins of the subgenital plate.