Vingselinini Kasalo & Skejo, 2025

Damien, Niko Kasalo, Laure, Damien Brouste, Christophe, Laure Desutter-Grandcolas, Domagoj, Christophe Hervé, Josip, Domagoj Bogić & Skejo, Josip, 2025, Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae with preliminary suprageneric classification of Batrachideinae, Zoosystema 47 (18), pp. 327-397 : 346

Tribe Vingselinini Kasalo & Skejo n. tribe

TYPE GENUS. — Vingselina Sjöstedt, 1921 .

COMPOSITION. — Vingselina Sjöstedt, 1921 , Ascetotettix Grant, 1956 , Paraselina Storozhenko, 2019 , Anaselina Storozhenko, 2019 , Selivinga Storozhenko, 2019 .

DISTRIBUTION. — Australia, extreme south of Africa.

DIAGNOSIS. — Frontal costa bifurcation between upper third and middle of eye height. Paired ocelli between half of eye height and ventral quarter of eye height. Paired ocelli visibly above frontal costa bifurcation. Antennal grooves at level of ventral margin of eyes or lower. Antennae filiform, composed of around 15 visible segments. Vertex wide and bulging, either rounded or rectangular. Anterior margin of pronotum usually projected in form of long helm, except in Anaselina , which has the anterior margin only slightly rounded. Median carina elevated in anterior half, forming large or barely visible crest. Margins of anterior and middle femora a little wavy. First segment of anterior tarsus elongated, third segment of hind tarsus short. Hind femur robust. Paranota with small ventral sinus.

REMARK

The Australian representatives of this tribe were recently reviewed by Storozhenko (2019) and placed in Bufonidini . As previously discussed, this placement does not seem correct. These genera appear quite similar to each other with some notable exceptions: Vingselina and Paraselina have notably angular pronotal crests and lower placed facial features; they are likely closely related. Anaselina almost entirely lacks the pronotal crest but it looks to be formed the same way as in the previous two genera. It also has its facial features placed higher but otherwise seems related to the previous two genera. On the other hand, Selivinga has facial features similar to Anaselina , but its pronotal crest is distinctly rounded, in addition to its vertex strongly bulging like in Ascetotettix . Ascetotettix appears similar to Selivinga and Paraselina in the facial morphology and pronotum shape, respectively, and most notably due to the reduced number of antennal segments (reported as 15 by Günther 1979). The genera included in this tribe share more similarities with each other than with members of other Batrachideinae tribes, but the tribe is still not narrowly defined. As outlined before, it likely contains at least two to three holophyletic groups without clear separating characters between them. This tribe should be understood as a preliminary tool for facilitating further research. The Australian members of this tribe resemble the members of the New Caledonian Hyperyboellini , but there is a peculiar difference between them: the paired ocelli in Hyperyboellini are placed right next to the frontal costa bifurcation, while in Vingselinini they are visibly lower.