Hyperyboella manautei 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 : 334-335

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a18
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2A1B87A0-9432-FFE0-8857-AC68FE13F95E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Hyperyboella manautei Kasalo & Skejo
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Hyperyboella manautei Kasalo & Skejo , n. sp.

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TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. New Caledonia • 1 ♀; Mt Panié ; 20°34’12”S, 164°46’26”E; 1300-1600 m a.s.l.; 14-16.V.1984; Monteith, Cook leg.; MNHN-EO-CAELIF11321 GoogleMaps

Paratypes. New Caledonia • 1 ♂; Mt Panié ; 20°34’12”S, 164°46’26”E; 1300-1600 m a.s.l.; 14-16.V.1984; Monteith, Cook leg.; QM Reg.No. T 258437 GoogleMaps • 1 ♀; Mt Panié ; 20°34’12”S, 164°46’26”E; 1300-1600 m a.s.l.; 14-16.V.1984; Monteith, Cook leg.; QM Reg. No. T 258438. TYPE LOCALITY. — Province Nord, Mt Panié, 1300-1600 m GoogleMaps .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia • 12 ♀, 3 ♂, 6 N; Mt Panié ; 20°34’12”S, 164°46’26”E; 1300-1600 m a.s.l.; 14-16.V.1984; Monteith, Cook leg.; QM GoogleMaps • 2 N; Mt Panié ; 20°34’12”S, 164°46’26”E; 950 m a.s.l.; 16.V.1984.; Monteith, Cook leg.; QM GoogleMaps • 3 ♂, 1 N; Mt Panié ; 20°34’12”S, 164°46’26”E; 1300 m a.s.l.; 16-18.XI.2000; Bouchard, Burwell, Monteith leg.; QM GoogleMaps • 1♂; Mt Panié ; 20°34’12”S, 164°46’26”E; 1300 m a.s.l.; 3.XI.1968; Raven leg.; QM GoogleMaps • 2 ♀, 3 ♂, 6 N; Me Maoya camp; 21°21’57”S, 165°19’58”E; 1150 m a.s.l.; 11- 12.XI.2002; Burwell, Monteith, Wright leg.; night collecting; QM GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS. — Extremely large. Anterior margin of pronotum in form of long spine, protruding far past anterior level of eyes. Median carina distinct and elevated throughout its length, moderately lowering past base of hind femora; forming leaf-like crest which is highest above widest part of infrascapular area. In lateral view, the anterior portion of median carina straight. Pronotal apex wide, moderately bilobate.

Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae

DISTRIBUTION. — Sparsely distributed in the northern half of New Caledonia.

ETYMOLOGY. — The largest tetrigid in New Caledonia is named for Joseph Manaute, Minister for the Environment in New Caledonia, who, as an official in the National Parks Department, gave much help and support to Queensland Museum expeditions to New Caledonia between 2000 and 2008. The specific epithet is a Latinized noun in genitive.

REMARK

This species is for now known only from high altitudes, from around 1000 m a.s.l. upward.