Parametrypa longispinosa, Gorochov, 2021

Gorochov, A. V., 2021, Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 13: new taxa of the subtribe Podoscirtina from Africa, Zoosystematica Rossica (Zoosyst. Rossica) 30 (1), pp. 64-77 : 75

Parametrypa longispinosa sp. nov.

( Figs 41–43 )

Holotype. Female ; South Africa, “Sodwana”, 27°31 ′ S, 32°40 ′ E, 21.XI.1988, D. Gouws ( SANC) .

Description. Female (holotype). Body moderately large, more or less shining. Coloration uniformly light brown but with yellowish ventral part of head and thorax, barely darkened and interrupted stripes along lateral parts of abdomen and along median line of abdominal dorsum, slightly darkened hind tibia, apical part of hind femur and a few spots on cercus, more darkened (brown) ovipositor and several areas on abdominal apex as well as rather small transverse spot on almost each abdominal sternite ( Figs 41–43 ).

Scape almost 1.5 times as wide as rostrum between antennal cavities; lateral ocelli smaller than in P. pubescens sp. nov., poorly distinct; median ocellus indistinct; hind femur ventrally without spines or denticles; hind tibia somewhat thickened in middle of its proximal half, dorsally with five pairs of long articulated spines and numerous unarticulated denticles (many of these spines and denticles clearly longer than in all other congeners; denticles spine-like and almost indistinguishable from spines in length; Fig. 42 ); hind basitarsus without or with one outer denticle, and with one inner dorsal denticles (in addition to apical spurs); genital plate with apical notch roundly angular in median part and clearly longer (deeper) than in P. pubescens sp. nov. ( Fig. 43 ); hind femur approximately 1.2 times as long as ovipositor.

Male unknown.

Length (in mm). Body 31; pronotum 5.8; hind femora 16; ovipositor 13.5.

Comparison. Parametrypa longispinosa sp. nov. is distinguished from its congeners by the characters listed in the key below.

Etymology. The new species name is an adjective composed of the Latin words longus (long) and spinosus (spiny or supplied with spines).

Figures

Figs 29–46. Parametrypa, female (29–34, 37, 40–46) and male (35, 36, 38, 39): 29–31, P. fortipes fortipes; 32–34, P. fortipes spiculata, stat. nov.; 35–40, P. pubescens sp. nov.; 41–43, P. longispinosa sp. nov.; 44–46, P. dentata sp. nov. Head with pronotum, dorsolateral and slightly anterior view (29, 32, 35, 41, 44); proximal half of hind tibia (30, 33, 37, 42, 45), dorsal and slightly inner view (left) as well as dorsal and slightly outer view (right); genital plate from below (31, 34, 40, 43, 46); hind femur, outer view (36); abdominal apex from above (38) and from below (39).