Habetia spada, Brunner, 1898

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 : 209

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5223203

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scientific name

Habetia spada
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Habetia spada View in CoL (Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1898)

Figs 1A View FIGURE 1 , 3G View FIGURE 3 , 5A View FIGURE 5 , Map 1(1).

Holotype (female): Papua New Guinea, Madang, Konstantinhafen [= Enke Port, the label reads “Konstantinshafen Deutsch-Neuguinea”], (5°30’S, 145°56’E), coll. BrW. 20.597—depository: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien ( NMW). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. H. spada differs from other species by the shape of the female subgenital plate that is flattened and has the lateral margins not markedly upcurved, the apical margin is wide-triangularly incised and the spines at apico-lateral angles are nearly rectangularly upcurved. The females from Toricelli Mountains that Karny identified as H. spada , however, differ significantly from the type of H. spada by the shape of the subgenital plate despite of the general similarity between both taxa as described below under H. pedala sp. nov., which has a domed subgenital plate while in H. spada it is flattened.

Description. Index fastigium verticis: eye diameter 1.70: 1.96 mm. Coloration of face of light general color; mandibles fully black; antennal scrobae and tip of fastigium frontis light brown ( Fig. 3G View FIGURE 3 ). Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: Femur spines: (1) a 6 p 8; (2) a 7 p 3; (3) a 12–14 p 13–14.

Male unknown.

Female. Subgenital plate rather flat with converging lateral margins and with a medial furrow; at posterior-lateral angles with up-bent, acute cones; apical margin between cones wide, triangularly incised ( Fig. 5A View FIGURE 5 ). Ovipositor about one and half time as long as body; behind basal constriction straight with dorsal valves in basal half only faintly convex ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ).

Measurements (1 female).—Body w/o wings: 42; pronotum: 9.3; tegmen: 38; hind femur: 28.5; ovipositor length: 63 mm.

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

Genus

Habetia

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