Tegotettix cristiferus (Gunther, 1935) Borneo

Patano, Romeo R., Mohagan, Alma B., Tumbrinck, Josef, Amoroso, Victor B. & Skejo, Josip, 2021, Horned and spiky: Tegotettix derijei sp. n. (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) is a peculiar new pygmy grasshopper species from Mindanao, Zootaxa 4933 (2), pp. 198-210 : 201-202

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3999E2EF-32AF-4F6D-9BED-4A0DCE8B69D4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4550384

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87A5-2173-E47B-FF38-B7D4FE97F9BF

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scientific name

Tegotettix cristiferus
status

 

Tegotettix cristiferus species group

Diagnosis. Fastigial horns of variable height, from low in T. sagittarius to extremely high in T. derijei sp. n. ( Figure 6A View FIGURE 6 ). Lateral ocelli placed between the compound eyes. In frontal view, frontal costa extremely short before bifurcation, almost indistinct. Facial carinae after the bifurcation divergent and straight. Shoulders (humeral part of the pronotum) elegant. Prozona extremely short. Pronotum with projections only on median carina. Femora undulated or straight. Chitinous surfaces generally smooth. This groups of species is closely related to Xistra .

Composition and distribution. This species group includes Tegotettix corniculatus ( Stål, 1877) (the Philippines: unknown locality), T. cristiferus ( Günther, 1935) (Borneo) , here described Tegotettix derijei sp. n. (the Philippines: Mindanao), and T. sagittarius ( Bolívar, 1887) . More new species await description within this species group ( Figures 3 View FIGURE 3 and 4 View FIGURE 4 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tetrigidae

Genus

Tegotettix

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