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Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-19
Page range: 407–416
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First report of a parthenogenetic Grylloidea and new genus of Neoaclini (Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae: Phalangopsinae)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. PH Rolfs, s/n°, Centro. CEP: 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. PH Rolfs, s/n°, Centro. CEP: 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. PH Rolfs, s/n°, Centro. CEP: 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Orthoptera cricket female insect parthenogenesis

Abstract

This study describes a new genus and species of Neoaclini cricket based on specimens collected in the Brazilian Atlantic forest. In addition to the morphological description, we also report karyotype. Ubiquepuella telytokous n. sp. represents the first recorded occurrence of parthenogenesis in Grylloidea. Although the exclusively parthenogenetic reproduction is rare in Orthoptera, we acknowledge this phenomenon in this species based on successful reproduction in the laboratory setting (i.e., approximately ten generations) despite the absence of males, indicating thelytokous parthenogenesis.