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Ornebius pullus Ingrisch 2006

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Forest Research Centre (Sepilok), Sabah Forestry Department, P. O. Box 1407, 90715 Sandakan, Sabah. & Razy. Japir @ sabah. gov. my
  • 3. Forest Research Centre (Sepilok), Sabah Forestry Department, P. O. Box 1407, 90715 Sandakan, Sabah. & Arthur. Chung @ sabah. gov. my; https: // orcid / org / 0000 - 0002 - 9529 - 4114
  • 4. Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Universiti, BE 1410, Brunei Darussalam. rodzay. wahab @ ubd. edu. bn; https: // orcid / org / 0000 - 0002 - 2151 - 7709

Description

Ornebius pullus Ingrisch, 2006

(Figs. 8–10)

Ornebius pullus Ingrisch, 2006: 157

Ornebius pullus — He et al., 2021: 88

Ornebius cf. pullus — Tan, 2012: 34; Tan & Ingrisch, 2013: 25; Tan, 2017: 55; Tan, 2019: 335

Material examined. 1 male (BRU.19.13), BRUNEI DARUSSALAM, Belait District, Jalan Labi near Andulau Forest Reserve, N4.62238, E114.51047, 101.3± 6.4 m.a.s.l., on foliage, 24 February 2019, 2052h, coll. M. K. Tan & H. Yeo (ZRC); 1 male (BRU.19.74), BRUNEI DARUSSALAM, Belait District, Jalan Labi near Andulau Forest Reserve, N4.63352, E114.51061, 89.0±7.1, on foliage, 8 July 2019, 2119h, coll. M. K. Tan (UBDM).

Other material examined. 1 male (D18.F.03), SINGAPORE, Mandai, secondary forest between Mandai Road and Upper Seletar Reservoir, 13 November 2015, night, coll. M. K. Tan (ZRC).

Remarks. The male specimens from Belait District agree with the original description of O. pullus (see Ingrisch, 2006) from Brunei-Muara District of Brunei Darussalam by habitus, size (Figs. 8, 9), shapes and colours of the epiproct and the paraproct process, as well as by the shape of phallic complex. However, the colour of the tegmen can be variable. While in one male (BRU.19.13) the colouration of the tegmen agrees with that of the holotype from Brunei-Muara, in the other male (BRU.19.74) the colour of the tegmen is somewhat intermediate between those of O. pullus and O. flori from Kinabalu in Sabah.

Tan & Ingrisch (2013) previously noted that this species may have also occurred in Singapore, although there are some variations from the Bruneian specimens. Specifically, the apices of the membranous lateral valves of the male phallic complex can vary in their length and prominence and the tegmen colouration of the Singapore specimens is darker than those from Brunei (Fig. 10).

We postulate that O. pullus from Brunei and Singapore may either represent a species complex or a polymorphic species. Molecular phylogeny may be useful to resolve this problem.

Distribution. Within Brunei Darussalam, this species can be found in the western areas (i.e., Belait and Brunei-Muara Districts, it is probably also found in Tutong District between Belait and Brunei-Muara), but not in the eastern part of Brunei (i.e., Temburong District) (see Tan & Wahab, 2018). One potential explanation is that O. pullus is found in the flatter terrains in Belait and Brunei-Maura Districts rather than the hilly terrains of Temburong District.

Notes

Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, Japir, Razy, Chung, Arthur Y. C. & Wahab, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul, 2021, New species and taxonomic notes of scaly crickets (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae Mogoplistinae) from Borneo, pp. 407-421 in Zootaxa 5048 (3) on pages 416-419, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5556495

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BRU, UBDM , BRU, ZRC , ZRC
Event date
2015-11-13 , 2019-02-24 , 2019-07-08
Verbatim event date
2015-11-13 , 2019-02-24 , 2019-07-08
Scientific name authorship
Ingrisch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Mogoplistidae
Genus
Ornebius
Species
pullus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ornebius pullus Ingrisch, 2006 sec. Tan, Japir, Chung & Wahab, 2021

References

  • Ingrisch, S. (2006) New taxa and notes on some previously described species of scaly crickets from South East Asia (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Mogoplistidae, Mogoplistinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 113 (1), 133 - 227. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 80345
  • He, Z., Ma, G. E., Long, J., Wang, Y., Zhang, T. & Ma, L. (2021) Taxonomy of scaly crickets (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae: Mogoplistinae) from China: five new species groups and three new species of the genus Ornebius Guerin-Meneville, 1844. Zootaxa, 4942 (1), 72 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4942.1.3
  • Tan, M. K. (2012) Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 2): Suborder Ensifera. Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University Singapore, Singapore. 70 pp. [uploaded 14 November 2012]
  • Tan, M. K. & Ingrisch, S. (2013) New taxa and notes of some described species of scaly crickets (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae: Mogoplistinae) from Singapore. Zootaxa, 3637 (1), 17 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3637.1.2
  • Tan, M. K. (2017) Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 2): Suborder Ensifera. 2 nd Edition. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 101 pages. [uploaded 16 June 2017]
  • Tan, M. K. & Wahab, R. A. (2018) Preliminary study on the diversity of Orthoptera from Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 27 (2), 119 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jor. 27.24152