Parahabetia pictifrons pictifrons ( Karny, 1911 )

Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2021, Revision of the genera Habetia Kirby, 1906 and Parahabetia gen. nov. from New Guinea (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Agraeciini), Zootaxa 5020 (2), pp. 201-256 : 248

Parahabetia pictifrons pictifrons ( Karny, 1911)

Figs 21 H–I , Map 1(pp)

Holotype (male): Papua New Guinea: Morobe Province, Huon Gulf, Sattelberg (6°28’S, 147°44’E)—depository not traced, originally: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien ( NMW).

Remark. The data in the original description indicate that the holotype should be stored in NMW. But it could not be traced over there. That specimen had been used as model for the colored image on a table in Karny (1912) painted by A. Baliani. However, Karny (1926, p. 197) mentions that the green color of the face faded away and became yellowish with a faint green tinge. Thus, he should have seen the specimen on a later occasion.

Description. Male [after Karny 1911, 1912, translated from Latin and German, with own comments in square brackets]. “Anal plate” [probably referring to the tenth tergite] circularly incised, with short acute lobes [in Fig. 21H it appears as though the apical projections of the tenth tergite and also the projections of the subgenital plate and the styli are pointing out of the plane of Karny’s drawing and thus appear too short]. Male cerci curved inward, from base of internal margin with a clubbed process, in middle provided with a long thorn, at end globularly inflated and provided at inner margin with an acute tooth. Subgenital plate large, resembling the shape of a canoe, with short styli and between them [the styli] with two narrow, slightly S-shaped projections, which are two times longer than the styli.

Measurements (1 male after Karny, 1911):—Body: 24; pronotum: 7.5; tegmen: 19.5; hind femur: 16 mm.

Figures

FIGURE 21. Parahabetia pictifrons (Karny, 1911) males: A–D, P. p. acuta ssp. nov. (Kokoda); E–G, P. p. obtusa ssp. nov. (McAdam Peak); H–I, P. p. pictifrons (redrawn from Karny 1911).—Abdominal apex in dorso-apical view (A, H), in strict dorsal view (B, E), in oblique lateral view (C, F) and in ventral view (D, G); male subgenital plate (I).—The arrows point at the tip of the projections of the tenth abdominal tergite. Scales 1 mm.