Adenopterus Chopard, 1951

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Anso, Jérémy & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa, Zoosystema 38 (4), pp. 405-452 : 438

Genus Adenopterus Chopard, 1951

Adenopterus Chopard, 1951: 511 . — Otte et al. 1987: 425.

Adenopterus Adenopterus – Gorochov 2003: 299.

Adenopterus Peltia Gorochov, 1986a: 704 . Type species Peltia roseola Gorochov, 1986a .Synonymized with Adenopterus by Otte et al. (1987).

TYPE SPECIES. — Adenopterus norfolkensis Chopard, 1951 by original designation.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: fig. 13E; Otte et al. 1987: fig. 30. Male genitalia: Otte et al. 1987: figs 34-38; Anso et al. 2016a: figs 21C-E, 22D-H.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — See Table 5. Color pattern variable. Body elongate and thin. HWs truncate or not. Ocelli most often all big, but this character variable. Pronotum transverse, slightly narrowed anteriorly.TI with large and oval inner and outer tympana; two apical spurs. FI not enlarged. TII with three (rarely four) apical spurs. TIII with five inner and five outer subapical spurs; outer spurs 1 to 4 clustered at apex. TIII serrulated; spines numerous, small and of regular size. Basitarsomeres III with one row of dorsal spines; neither high, not flattened.

Male. FWs without a stridulum; tegminal glands variable. Subgenital plate long and acute. Male genitalia symmetrical; pseudepiphalic sclerite longer than wide, convex; pseudepiphallic parameres long, narrow and not widened; ectophallic fold very long and thin; dorsal cavity well-developed, twisted.

Female. Subgenital plate squared; distal margin straight or bisinuate. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla comprising a short distal ring prolonged by a ventral plate.

DISTRIBUTION. — Eastern Oceania.

HABITAT. — In New Caledonia, Adenopterus species occur in a large gradient of vegetation, from schrubland to rainforest, where they forage at night on plants ( Anso et al. 2016a).

REMARK

The monophyly of this genus is not attested and should be checked.