Anaulacomera (Analaucomera) caudata, Fianco, 2021
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.1.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4688036 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C787E3-A810-DE32-15C9-FA500B485169 |
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Anaulacomera (Analaucomera) caudata |
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sp. nov. |
Anaulacomera (Analaucomera) caudata sp. n.
Figures 1B View FIGURE 1 , 3 View FIGURE 3 , 6B View FIGURE 6
Diagnosis: The new species can be readly distinguished from its congeners by the form of male cerci, that possess the apex truncated, dilated, with a lateral triangular spine-like process, and a medial triangular process, much larger than lateral, with apical margin dentate.
Etymology: The specific epithet derived from Latin (caudātus = tail) refers to the form of male cerci, similar to a tail of a fish.
Description: Holotype male ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 , 6B View FIGURE 6 ): Medium-sized, somewhat yellowish greenish, probably green in life. Head ( Fig. 3B,C View FIGURE 3 ): Fastigium of the frons triangular; apex in a protuberance; with a golden oval ocellus on middle. Antennal sockets dilated at base. Fastigium of the vertex triangular; globose at apex; with a large sulcus on middle that not reaches apex. Thorax: Pronotum plain colour. Pronotal disc ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ) with anterior margin concave and posterior margin convex; furcal sulci bell-shaped; same width in all extension. Lateral lobes ( Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3 ) smaller than pronotal disc, longer than wide; anterior margin concave with a depression on basal part, posterior margin convex but almost straight; humeral sinus presenting an angle of ca. 90º. Tegmina ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 , 6B View FIGURE 6 ) shorter than hindwings; anal and costal margins almost parallel; Sc almost straight; R with three major bifurcations, only the proximal reaches costal margin; M long, following R in all extension; MP leaving M after the middle of tegmina; MA with two bifurcation; CuA very long and curved, with three bifurcations; four veins between MP and CuA; A1 yellowish, stridulatory area with brownish stains in the proximal region ( Fig. 3F, G View FIGURE 3 ). Mesobasisternum ( Fig. 3E View FIGURE 3 ) elevated on middle; anterior margin convex; lateral lobes small, distant in the posterior margin. Metabasisternum ( Fig. 3E View FIGURE 3 ) triangular, elevated on middle; anterior margin straight; lateral lobes demilune shaped, almost touching in the posterior margin. Abdomen: Tergite X large, posterior margin straight. Epiproct moderately large, as broad as long. Cercus ( Fig. 3H, I View FIGURE 3 ) not as long; apex dilated with one lateral triangular spine-like process; medial process triangular, much larger than lateral, apical margin dentate. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 3H, I View FIGURE 3 ) trapezoidal; posterior processes rhomboid, larger than long. Genitalia ( Fig. 3J, K View FIGURE 3 ): Phallus, rounded, membranous but titillator and anterophallic apodemes sclerotized; titillator’s sclerites fused on middle, with tip exposed and more sclerotized, possessing teeth like microstructures; sclerites of ventral fold of dorsal lobe quite large, tips more sclerotized and exposed in the basal area; lower fold of ventral lobe quite large; dorsal lobe as large as ventral lobe.
Female: As large as male, general characteristics as in male. Tergite X not expanded. Ovipositor slightly curved up, twice longer than pronotum; lateral margins of dorsal and ventral valves brownish, with small serrulations. Cercus conical, as long as subgenital plate. Subgenital plate wider, at base, than long; triangular; apex bifid; posterior processes touching in the apex.
Type Material: Holotype male, ‘ DPTO ZOOL \ UF –PARANÁ’ ‘ Morretes – PR Brasil \ ( IAPAR) \ 10– 17.IX.1984 \ C.I.I.F. (Luminosa)’ ‘ DZUP 366828 View Materials ’. Paratypes: One male, same data, except ‘ 11.III.1985 ’, ‘ DZUP 366796 View Materials ’; one male, same data, except ‘ 02–03.XII.1984 ’, ‘ DZUP 366799 View Materials ’; one male, same data, except ‘ 18.IV.1985 ’ ‘ DZUP 366800 View Materials ’; one male, same data, except ‘ 21–27.VIII.1984 ’ ‘ DZUP 366801 View Materials ’; one male, same data, except ‘ 03– 10.IX.1984 ’ ‘ DZUP 366888 View Materials ’; one male and one female, same data, except ‘ 17. V .1985’ ‘ DZUP 366747 View Materials ’; one male, same data, except ‘ 19.IV.1985 ’ ‘ DZUP 366882 View Materials ’; one male, same data, except ‘ 20.XII.1984 ’ ‘ DZUP 366857 View Materials ’; one male, same data, except ‘ 22.IV.1985 ’ ‘ DZUP 366889 View Materials ’; one female, same data, except ‘ 27.III.1985 ’ ‘ DZUP 366782 View Materials ’; one female, same data, except ‘ 13.III.1985 ’ ‘ DZUP 366795 View Materials ’, and one female, same data, except ‘ 16–23.VII.1984 ’ ‘ DZUP 366783 View Materials ’.
Measurements (mm): Holotype: BL: 16.2; TegL: 29.3; HW: 2.4; PrL: 3.2; PrH: 3; FLiii: 15.5; TLiii: 19; SPL: 2.5; CL: 2.3; SFL: 1.28; TN: 37.
Remarks: A. (Anaul.) caudata sp. n. undoubtedly belongs to the Subinermis species group of Anaulacomera (Anaulacomera) , and among the seven species of the group, it is closest related to A. (Anaul.) metropolitana Piza. The new species can be differentiated from the latter species by the form of: male cercus, thicker in A. (Anaul.) caudata sp. n.; the external process of the cercus, short and triangular with large base in the new species, and in A. (Anaul.) metropolitana it is long and triangular with thin base; the subgenital plate, short and wide with apex bidentate in the new species, while it is long, thin and tridentate in A. (Anaul.) metropolitana (see Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 in Piza (1952)). The presence of two apical processes or branches on the male cercus also distinguishes the new species from all the other species of the group. This unique process of the other species is not undivided nor undifferentiated, as it is possible to see in A. (Anaul.) spatulata Hebard and A. (Anaul.) subinermis Caudell. In the OSF some photos of individuals of A. (Anaul.) metropolitana are helpful, however they clearly do not belong to this nominal species, not withstanding that they were identified by S. Toledo Piza.
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Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology and Paleobotany |
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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium |
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Phaneropterinae |
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Phaneropterini |
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Anaulacomerina |
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Anaulacomera |