Ducetia malayana, 2017

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Liu, Chun-Xiang, Shi, Fu-Min, Hemp, Claudia, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta & Rentz, David C. F., 2017, Complex songs and cryptic ethospecies: the case of the Ducetia japonica group (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropteridae: Phaneropterinae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 286-307 : 294

DUCETIA MALAYANA HELLER SP. NOV.

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Holotype: Male (in ethanol). Label 1 ‘ MALAYSIA: Selangor, Ulu Gombak Field Study Centre (20 km to Kuala Lumpur, 3°20′N, 101°45′E), 260 m a.s.l., 8–28 March 1981, leg. K.-G. Heller & M. Volleth’. Label 2 ‘3653’. Label 3 ‘ 16 March 1981 tape recorder symbol, handwritten (depository: MfN, Berlin).

Paratypes (in ethanol or dried): 8 males, 2 females, same locality as holotype, but various dates (1981– 1997) and collectors. Collection Heller .

Diagnosis: Song unit of calling song consisting of only one short (c. 2 s) phase, thus differing from all other known species of the D. japonica complex ( Table 3; see ‘Bioacoustics’ section for details).

Description: Morphologically similar to D. japonica (and D. antipoda sp. nov. except for the stridulatory file). See SI3 and description of D. antipoda sp. nov. in SI2 for details.

Habitat: Similar to D. antipoda sp. nov. Not found in undisturbed or disturbed forests, but typically only in rural habitats.

Etymology: Name referring to the location of the type locality on the Malay Peninsula. Adjective, following Ducetia in gender.

Distribution: At present only known from the type locality and from Singapore, but probably widespread in Malaysia and adjacent regions.