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description · 
Plazi
Description. Size large for the genus, and coloration darker than in A. isthmiensis and A. matilei , but very similar to A. troxalis . Eyes, fastigium, scapes, pronotum, tympanum, TI apical spurs, TIII serrulation, basitarsomere III length as in all the species of the genus, but: Inner margin of antennal pits not as high as in A. isthmiensis and A. matilei . TII with 3 apical spurs, the inner ventral spur the longest. TIII with 4 outer and 3 inner subapical spurs, the inners lower on the tibia than the outers; inner serrulation: no spine before spur 1, between spurs 1 and 2, and between spurs 2 and 3, 10 (female) to 13 (male) spines above spur 3; outer serrulation: no spine before spur 1 and between spurs 1 and 2, no (female) or 1 spine (male) between spurs 2 and 3, 1 (female) or 2–4 (male) spines between spurs 3 and 4, 8–10 (female) or 12 (male) above spur 4. Basitarsomeres III with no (female) or 1 (male) inner dorsal spine, and 4 (female) or 2–4 (male) outer dorsal spines, in addition to apical spines. Male. FWs as in other winged species of the genus; stridulatory file with 39–47 teeth (n=2). Male genitalia. Very similar to that of A. troxalis ( Fig. 6 C), but the genitalia bigger, the median process of pseudepiphallic sclerite distinctly convex ( Fig. 7 H), and the lateral processes longer and apically rounded (compare Fig. 7 J and 7K). Female. Ovipositor longer than FIII. Female genitalia. Copulatory papilla more or less as in A. troxalis , very small, deeply indented at apex; ventral invagination low. Measurements. Lpron wpron LFW LFIII LTIII File Holotype: 2.4 3 2.5 11.3 9.6 39 Paratype: (1) 2.5 3.2 3 12.7 10.9 47 mean (n=2) 2.5 3.1 2.8 12 10.3 43 Lpron wpron LFIII LTIII Lovip Allotype: 2.7 3.5 11.9 9.9 12.1 Aclella nova Desutter-Grandcolas , n. sp. ( Fig. 6 D, 7I , L, M) http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:465869
description · Plazi
Description. Size small. Head, tympana, male FWs, TIII spurs as in the genus description. TII with 3 apical spurs (outer dorsal spur lacking). TIII serrulation: inner serrulation: no spine before spur 1 and between spurs 1 and 2, 1 spine between spurs 2 and 3, 14 spines above spur 3; outer serrulation: no spine before spur 1 and between spurs 1 and 2, 2 spines between spurs 2 and 3, 2 spines between spurs 3 and 4, 10 spines above spur 4. Basitarsomeres III with 1 inner dorsal spine, and 3 outer dorsal spines, in addition to apical spines. Coloration. Unclear (specimen in alcohol). General coloration brown abundantly marked with yellow; dorsum (abdomen, FWs) probably lighter. Face brown with yellow as in A. troxalis , but brown spot within the longitudinal yellow band of the face elongate and thin. Palpi brown, their dorsal edge ivory. Tibiae with 4 brown rings. Cerci with a light basal ring. Subgenital plate with a with clear longitudinal median band, wider anteriorly. Male. FWs very short, highly setose; on the thickened right FW, venation hardly distinct, only the stridulatory file clearly visible in a deep depression; stridulatory file with about 51 teeth; on the left FW, dorsal field soft and thin with a complete stridulum (harp with 5 or 6 parallel veins, mirror triangular). Subgenital plate longer than wide, slightly emarginate distally ( Fig. 7 M). Male genitalia. Pseudepiphallic sclerite as an acute triangle, with a thin, high and not bifid apex ( Fig. 6 D). Lateral processes of pseudepiphallus sclerotized ventrally; distinctly narrowed at distal half ( Fig. 7 L). Ectophallic apodemes short and straight, not reaching the anterior margin of endophallic apodeme ( Fig. 6 D). Female. Unknown. Measurements. Lpron wpron LFW LFIII LTIII File Holotype 2.1 2.6 2.7 9.5 7.7 ~51 Acknowledgements Field work in Costa Rica was supported by the program ALAS (OTS, NGS, INBio) and I thank Jack Longino for inviting me in 2005 to collect and study crickets at Finca La Selva and at the Finca Murillo field station. I also thank the staff of the ALAS project, and particularly Flor Cascante Gomez, for their great help in working with ALAS insect collections. Photographs of collection specimens have been taken by Guy Lecorvec (MNHN).