Capillogryllus exilipalpis Xie & Zheng, 2003

Wu, Qian & Ma, Li-Bin, 2023, Redescription of two species of Capillogryllus Xie, Zheng & Liang, 2003, with a new species from China (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Gryllinae), Zootaxa 5336 (1), pp. 135-140 : 138

Capillogryllus exilipalpis Xie & Zheng, 2003

Capillogryllus exilipalpis Xie & Zheng, 2003: 96

Figs. 1 , 3B , 4B

Chinese name: Ǿfflfü

Materials examined. Holotype. China: Female, Heishiding Nature Reserve , Fengkai County, Guangdong Province, 4-vii-1987, Shaofeng Chen coll. ( SNNU).

Description. Male. Unknown.

Female. Body sized small for Gryllinae . Head less pilose, slightly narrower than pronotum. Occiput protruding, vertex inclined significantly. Frontal rostrum nearly as wide as antennal scape. The antennal scape scutellate. Face transversely broad. Median ocellus oval, distinctly smaller than lateral ones; lateral ocelli rounded. Postclypeus narrowly banded, angular on both sides; anteclypeus round shield-shaped. Labrum scutellate. The end section of the maxillary palpi approximately rod-like, distinctly shorter than the third segment. Pronotum approximately rectangular in dorsal view, anterior and posterior margins straight, and bearing long setae on anterior margin and lateral lobes. Bearing small wing buds. Abdominal tergites densely pilose. Tympanum absent. Legs with short and long setae. Dorsal spurs of hind tibia numbered 4:4 (inner: outer). The apical spurs numbered three on both sides, and the longest in the middle of both inner and outer ones. Ovipositor apically sharp.

Coloration. Body blackish-red. Maxillary palpi yellowish-brown. Legs reddish-brown. Female abdominal tergum armed with yellow-brown pubescence. Ovipositor yellowish brown.

Measurements. Female (n=1). BL 8.75, HL 1.26, HW 2.40, PL 2.07, PW 2.62, HFL 5.76, OL 4.89.

Remarks. C. exilipalpis is the second species of the genus Capillogryllus , with a female specimen as holotype. Compared with C. dolabripalpis , this species is larger in size, median ocellus oval, and the end section of the maxillary palpi approximately rod-like, and distinctly shorter than the third segment. Compared with C. spinae sp. nov., this species is blackish-red body and has wing buds in females.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Distribution of Capillogryllus species in China.

FIGURE 3. Female bodies of C. dolabripalpis and C. exilipalpis. A. C. dolabripalpis (ovipositor damaged), B. C. exilipalpis. Scale bar: 10 mm.

FIGURE 4. Side view of heads of Capillogryllus. A. C. dolabripalpis, B. C. exilipalpis, C. C. spinae sp. nov..