Wednesday, May 7, 2025

[Entomology • 2020] Antillobinthus inexpectatus • A New Genus and Species of Cricket from eastern Cuba: the First Antillean True Eneopterinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae)

 
Antillobinthus inexpectatus Yong & Desutter-Grandcolas,

in Yong, Desutter-Grandcolas, Teruel & Leguin, 2020. 

Abstract
The occurrence of true Eneopterinae in the Antilles is recorded herein for the first time, with the description of a new genus and species herein described from eastern Cuba (Greater Antilles): Antillobinthus inexpectatus Yong & Desutter-Grandcolas, n. gen. n. sp. It is described and illustrated in detail, including color photographs of habitus, morphologically diagnostic characters and habitat. The present finding revives a biogeographical debate, as no Eneopterinae was up-to-now known from the Antilles.

Orthoptera, cricket, taxonomy, new genus, new species, distribution, Cuba, Greater Antilles
 
Antillobinthus inexpectatus Yong & Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp.,
adult male holotype (1) and adult female allotype (2),
habitus: a) dorsal; b) lateral; c) ventral.
Scale bar in millimeters.

Antillobinthus inexpectatus Yong & Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp.,
adult male holotype (3) and adult female allotype (4),
close-ups: a) head and thorax, dorsal; b) head and thorax, lateral; c) head, frontal.


Sheyla YONG, Laure DESUTTER-GRANDCOLAS, Rolando TERUEL and Elise-Anne LEGUIN. 2020. A New Genus and Species of Cricket from eastern Cuba: the First Antillean True Eneopterinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae). Zootaxa. 4858(2); 261–273. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4858.2.7