Yangtettix burwelli 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 : 338

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a18
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15762262
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Yangtettix burwelli Kasalo & Skejo
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Yangtettix burwelli Kasalo & Skejo , n. sp.

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TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. New Caledonia • 1 ♀; Mt Humboldt ; 21°52’58”S, 166°24’46”E; 1400 m a.s.l.; 6.XI.2002; Burwell, Monteith, Wright leg.; night collecting; MNHN-EO-CAELIF11323 Paratype. New Caledonia GoogleMaps • 1 ♂; Mt Humboldt ; 21°52’58”S, 166°24’46”E; 1400 m a.s.l.; 6.XI.2002; Burwell, Monteith, Wright leg.; night collecting; QM Reg. No. T 258441 GoogleMaps .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Province Sud, Mt Humboldt, 1400 m.

ETYMOLOGY. — Named for Dr Chris Burwell, present curator of entomology at the Queensland Museum, who participated in many surveys of North Queensland and New Caledonia. The specific epithet is a Latinized noun in genitive.

DISTRIBUTION. — Southern New Caledonia, just north of the distribution area of Y. grimbacheri Kasalo & Skejo , n. sp..

HABITAT. — Found at night in humid forests, generally on living trees with smooth bark, 1 m to 2 m high.

DIAGNOSIS. — Antennae filiform, composed of 13 visible segments. In dorsal view, most of vertex covered by pronotum; reaching anterior margin of eyes; narrowing anteriorly. Anterior margin of pronotum triangular, reaching a little past vertex. Median carina distinct and elevated throughout two thirds of its length. Pronotal apex wide, two-spined with narrow triangular incision.