Phaulula spinulenta, Gorochov, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.514.1 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9FEABE7D-6BCA-41A0-B204-D3E1A1046BF0 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E6C56E-FFFD-8F5F-FF25-FA98FEC3C02C |
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Felipe |
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scientific name |
Phaulula spinulenta |
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sp. n. |
Phaulula spinulenta Gorochov, sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/ 9F780FF7-0BEA-46A9-990F-0CC85460C139
Figs 49, 50 View Figs 49–54 , 55, 56 View Figs 55–60 , 61–63 View Figs 61–72
MATERIAL. Holotype – ♂, Indonesia: New Guinea I., Papua Prov., Kasonaweja Vill. on Mamberamo River near Van Rees Range, primary forest on hill, at light, 25–27.I 2012, A. Gorochov ( ZIN).
DESCRIPTION. Male (holotype). General appearance similar to that of Ph. javanica sp. n. but with following differences: integument slightly shining, but abdominal tergites (except for last one) and sternites more or less matte; coloration uniformly yellowish (including fore tibiae) with transparent some membranes of wings (as in this species) and brown apical tubercle of each cercus ( Figs 49, 50 View Figs 49–54 , 55 View Figs 55–60 , 61–63 View Figs 61–72 ); pronotum with slightly shagreen surface ( Fig. 49 View Figs 49–54 ); tegmina with somewhat less longitudinal (more oblique) branches of R ( Fig. 50 View Figs 49–54 ), barely shorter widened proximal part of each dorsal field ( Fig. 55 View Figs 55–60 ), and stridulatory vein as in Fig. 56 View Figs 55–60 ; last tergite with long and thin (spine-like) posteromedian process which roundly curved downwards/backwards after proximal third of its length (apical part of this process very thin and acute; Figs 61–63 View Figs 61–72 ); cercus with distal portion less strongly curved medially, with strongly thickened (almost bulbous) subapical part, and with somewhat larger (wider and higher) apical denticle directed medially ( Figs 61, 62 View Figs 61–72 ); genital plate as in Figs 62, 63 View Figs 61–72 .
Female unknown.
Length (in mm). Body 21.5; body with wings 38; pronotum 5.2; tegmina 29; hind femora 17.5.
COMPARISON. The new species belongs to Ph. ensigera group, but it differs from Ph. ensigera (from Luzon I.) in the process of the male last tergite clearly curved downwards (not almost straight), and the male cercus significantly more widened (thickened) in its distal part. From Ph. rugulosa (also from Luzon I.), the new species is distinguished by the same process curved in its more proximal part (this process before the curvature is almost twice shorter than after it, but in Ph. rugulosa , this curvature is located almost in the middle of the process), and the male cercus with one distal tubercle (vs with two such tubercles; compare Figs 61–63 and 64 View Figs 61–72 ); and from Ph. carolinensis (from Caroline Islands), by a longer posterior process of the male last tergite, and a much wider (thicker) distal part of the male cercus. From all other true and probable congeners, the new species differs in a long and thin (spine-like) posteromedian process of the male last tergite and/or the following characters: from Ph. reticulata (from Buru I.), in the pronotum and femora lacking reddish dots, and the fore tibia without blackish marks near its tympana; and from Ph. denticauda (from Jolo I. in Philippines), in the body size distinctly smaller (lengths of pronotum, tegmen and hind femur are about 4.9, 29, 17.5 mm in the new species and about 6, 40, 21 mm in Ph. denticauda , respectively).
ETYMOLOGY. The new species name is the Latin word “spinulenta ” (spiky, with a spine or spines) given due to the presence of a spine-like process on the male last tergite.
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum |
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