Cryncus camerounensis Um Nyobe, Kekeunou & Bilong Bilong 2021, sp. nov.
Creators
- 1. University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon.
- 2. University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon. & skekeunou @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9058 - 100 X
- 3. College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710119, China.
- 4. Institut de Systématique, Evolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
- 5. University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon. & simeunou @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5386 - 9450
- 6. University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon. & bilong _ bilong @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0138 - 5713
Description
Cryncus camerounensis Um Nyobe, Kekeunou & Bilong Bilong sp. nov.
Material examined. Holotype: male, CAMEROON, Center Region, Zamakoe (3°33’816”N, 11°31’913”E) secondary forest, 21/iii/2015; pitfall trap; P. Um Nyobe & team leg. (MNHN-EO-ENSIF1139)
Paratypes: 5 males, 14 females, CAMEROON, Center Region, Zamakoe (3°33’816”N, 11°31’913”E); principally in secondary forest, only two females in crops field (14/iii/2015, 16/ii/2015, 18/iv/2015, 21/iii/2015); pitfall trap mainly, quadrat trap occasionally (MNHN-EO-ENSIF10950-10968). 1female, CAMEROON, Center Region, Ongot (3°85’786”N, 11°38’333”E), secondary forest, 08/ii/2015, pitfall trap (MNHN-EO-ENSIF10969); 1 male, CAMEROON, South Region; Engout’Adjap (2°42’N, 11°03’E), secondary forest, 09/06/2015, pitfall trap; P. Um Nyobe & team leg. (MNHN-EO-ENSIF 10970).
Etymology. Epithet camerounensis refers to the country where the type material was found.
Diagnosis. Micropterous species with forewings reaching abdomen mid-length. Mirror of irregular shape, wider than long, without division and presenting a space between it and the apical field which is short (Fig. 2 C, G). Presence of an elongated oval tympanum on outer surface of anterior tibia; inner face without tympana. Posterior tibia with 5 dorsal spurs on each side (internal and external). Median lophi and ectophallic fold absent (Fig. 2 H, I). Ectoparameres long, tapered and reaching apical end of epiphallic lobes without exceeding them (Fig. 2 H, I).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2015-02-08 , 2015-03-21 , 2015-06-09
- Family
- Haglotettigoniidae
- Genus
- Cryncus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Um Nyobe, Kekeunou & Bilong Bilong
- Species
- camerounensis
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-02-08 , 2015-03-21 , 2015-06-09
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryncus camerounensis Nyobe, Kekeunou & Bilong, 2021