Mistshenkoana gracilis ( Chopard, 1925 )

Tan, Ming Kai, Gorochov, Andrei V., Baroga-Barbecho, Jessica B. & Yap, Sheryl A., 2020, New data on some crickets of the subfamilies Landrevinae, Phaloriinae and Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Grylloidea) from Laguna (Philippines: Luzon Island), Zootaxa 4809 (1), pp. 29-55 : 44-45

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scientific name	Mistshenkoana gracilis ( Chopard, 1925 )
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Mistshenkoana gracilis ( Chopard, 1925)

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Chopard (1925): 327; Chopard (1929): 117; Chopard (1968): 400; Gorochov (1990): 21; Ichikawa et al. (2000): 278

Type material examined (images). Male holotype (MNHN-EO-ENSIF6738, MNHN online collection), Philippines, Mindanao, Butuan, coll. P. I. Baker ; female allotype (MNHN-EO-ENSIF6739, MNHN online collection), Philippines, Western Visayas , Northwest Panay, coll. P. I. Baker.

Remarks. Whether the male holotype and female allotype from two different parts of the Philippines belong to the same species need to be verified. The holotype and allotype differ slightly by apical segment of maxillary palp distinctly enlarged in allotype but less so in holotype; pronotum and legs of holotype homogenously brown but with dark spots in allotype.

New materials collected from Paete and Mount Makiling show that sympatric species can have very similar external morphology, but different male genitalia and that sexual dimorphism is absent in Mistshenkoana . This lends support that the differences in between holotype and allotype are likely to be species variations, especially since the specimens were collected from separate islands belonging to two biogeographic regions.

Notes made by Chopard (1925) about females of ‘ M. gracilis ’ from Luzon are probably also belonging to another species.