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Cardiodactylus Saussure 1878

  • 1. Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) desutter @ mnhn. fr
  • 2. Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) and Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS, IRD, UAPV, Centre IRD Nouméa, BP A 5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex, (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
  • 3. Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS, IRD, UAPV, Centre IRD Nouméa, boîte postale A 5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex (Nouvelle-Calédonie) Published on 30 December 2016

Description

Genus Cardiodactylus Saussure, 1878

Cardiodactylus Saussure, 1878: 657.

TYPE SPECIES. — Platydactylus novaeguineae de Haan, 1844 by subsequent designation (Kirby 1906).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: Fig. 15C. Male genitalia: Robillard & Ichikawa 2009: fig.4. Calling song: Robillard & Ichikawa 2009: fig. 7.

DIAGNOSIS. — After Robillard & Ichikawa (2009). Large, fusiform species, with long FWs, HWs and cerci in both sexes. Coloration variegated, with yellow, whitish, brown and black; palpi yellow to white, with or without a brown apical ring on joint 5. Eyes slightly protruding. Fastigium as wide as scape, thus relatively narrow compared to other eneopterine genera. Pronotum transverse. TI with an inner and an outer tympana.

Male. Stridulum complete; harp longer than wide, with two strongly bisinuated, oblique veins; mirror well delimited, more or less clearly separated from apical field; apical field elongate with several cell alignments. Male genitalia: pseudepiphallic sclerite very long, greatly narrowed at mid length, setose laterally and ventrally, with two high dorsal crests partly fused dorsally; rami short and wide.

Female. Ovipositor long, apex lanceolate and flattened laterally. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla with rounded sclerotized base and apex.

CALLING SONG. — The call of C. novaeguineae (de Haan, 1844) is complex, with two different types of echemes. The dominant frequency is carried on the third harmonic (Robillard & Ichikawa 2009).

DISTRIBUTION. — Cardiodactylus is highly diversified in the western Pacific; it is known in New Caledonia by only C. novaeguineae, a widely distributed species in Oceania (Robillard & Ichikawa 2009).

HABITAT. — Cardiodactylus novaeguineae is restricted to opened forest in coastal areas, where it forages from afternoon to night on vegetation (Robillard & Ichikawa 2009).

Notes

Published as part of Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Anso, Jérémy & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa, pp. 405-452 in Zoosystema 38 (4) on page 446, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n4a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578278

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References

  • SAUSSURE H. DE 1878. - Melanges orthopterologiques. VIe fascicule. Gryllides (2 e partie). Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve 25: 369 - 702.
  • KIRBY W. F. 1906. - A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Volume II. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part 1. Achetidae and Phasgonuridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, viii + 562 p.
  • ROBILLARD T. & ICHIKAWA A. 2009. - Redescription of two Cardiodactylus species (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopterinae): the supposedly well-known C. novaeguineae (Haan, 1842), and the semi-forgotten C. guttulus (Matsumura, 1913) from Japan. Zoological Science 26: 878 - 891.