Tremellia timah Gorochov et Tan, new species ...

• Main Authors: Gorochov, Andrej V., Tan, Ming Kai
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Orthoptera; Haglotettigoniidae; Tremellia; Tremellia timah; fratercula
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6178736; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6178736

Tremellia timah Gorochov et Tan, new species (Figs 9, 10, 24–34) Material examined. Holotype (male): Singapore, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Hindhede Nature Park, secondary forest, 29 January 2012, coll. M.K. Tan & J.J.Y. Chan. Paratypes: Singapore: 1 male, same locality as for holotype, 30 October 2010, coll. M.K. Tan; 1 male, Dairy Farm Nature Park, along Dairy Farm Loop, secondary forest, 20 January 2012, coll. M.K. Tan, R.W.J. Ngiam & W.L. Lim; 1 female, same park, along Wallace Trail, secondary forest, 10 July 2012, coll. M.K. Tan & K.H. Ong. Diagnosis. The new species differs from all the other congeners with known males (Gorochov, 1996, 2004a, 2011) in the presence of characteristic lamellar ventral lobe at the distal part of ectoparameres, that is, its ectoparameres ventrally are without any notch at the subapical part; but in Tremellia fratercula (Chopard), Tremellia mindoro Gorochov and Tremellia minahassa Gorochov, such lobe is undeveloped or almost undeveloped, and their ectoparameres ... : Published as part of Gorochov, Andrej V. & Tan, Ming Kai, 2012, New crickets of the subfamilies Phaloriinae and Pteroplistinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from Singapore, pp. 18-34 in Zootaxa 3525 on pages 21-24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214470 ...