Saturday, May 27, 2023

[Entomology • 2023] Eurhaphidophora apicoexcisa • Review of the Genus Eurhaphidophora Gorochov, 1999 (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Rhaphidophoridae) from Thailand, with Description of A New Species


Eurhaphidophora apicoexcisa
 Dawwrueng, Gorochov, Pinkaew & Vitheepradit, 2023

จิ้งโกร่งถ้ำท้ายยื่นปลายแหว่ง || DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.2.7

Abstract
Thai rhaphidophorid species of the genus Eurhaphidophora Gorochov 1999 are reviewed. Previously, two species and one subspecies (E. bispina Gorochov 2010; E. pawangkhananti Dawwrueng, Gorochov & Suwannapoom 2020; E. tarasovi doitungensis Dawwrueng, Gorochov & Suwannapoom 2020) were reported from Thailand. In this study, a new additional species (Eurhaphidophora apicoexcisa sp. nov.) from Ratchaburi Province is described. Males of this new large-sized species are easily recognized from other males of Eurhaphidophora by an almost straight and lamellar posteromedian process of the ninth abdominal tergite, the presence of a small but rather deep and rounded apical excision on this process, and a long apical part of the epiproct. Females of the new species also can be distinguished from other Thailand congeners by the presence of a small rounded posteromedian projection on the both eighth and ninth abdominal tergites, and a shortly triangular subgenital plate. An updated species catalogue of all known species and taxonomic keys to Thailand Eurhaphidophora species for males and females are provided.

Keywords: Orthoptera, rhaphidophorids, Indochina, new species, taxonomy


 
Eurhaphidophora apicoexcisa sp. nov.




Pattarawich Dawwrueng, Andrei V. Gorochov, Nantasak Pinkaew, Akekawat Vitheepradit. 2023. Review of the Genus Eurhaphidophora Gorochov, 1999 (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Rhaphidophoridae) from Thailand, with Description of A New Species.  Zootaxa. 5278(2); 351-362. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.2.7
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