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Issue: Vol. 3814 No. 1: 6 Jun. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.1.5
Page range: 96–108
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the genus Pteroplistes in India, with the description of two new species Pteroplistes kervasae Jaiswara, n. sp. and Pteroplistes masinagudi Jaiswara, n. sp. (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Pteroplistinae)

ISYEB, UMR7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, 57 rue Cuvier, Case Postale 50 (Entomologie), 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
ISYEB, UMR7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, 57 rue Cuvier, Case Postale 50 (Entomologie), 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Orthoptera Grylloidea Pteroplistinae Pteroplistes platycleis new species Western Ghats India

Abstract

Pteroplistes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873 is an Indo-Malaysian cricket genus with only one species, P. platycleis Bolivar, 1899(1900) known from India. Here, we redescribe the genus Pteroplistes and P. platycleis and describe two new Indian species, Pteroplistes kervasae Jaiswara, n. sp. and Pteroplistes masinagudi Jaiswara, n. sp. from the Western Ghats, using morphology and genitalia. Identification keys to separate the Indian species of Pteroplistes are provided and the distribution of the genus in India is discussed.