A new species and morphometric analysis of Cladonotella (Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae)

By

Tan, Ming Kai
Tumbrinck, Josef
Baroga-Barbecho, Jessica B.
Yap, Sheryl A.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-8-23

Original Publication

Journal of orthoptera research : JOR

Volume

28

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

129--135

Subjects

Orthoptera , Philippines , pygmy grasshoppers , Southeast Asia , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Philadelphia, Penn Orthopterists' Society 1992-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.28.32464

 

Abstract

The genus Cladonotella (Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae) consists of four species of pygmy grasshoppers from Java and New Guinea. A new species of Cladonotella is described from Siargao Island, Philippines: Cladonotella spinulosasp. nov. This represents the first record of Cladonotella in the Philippines. To quantify differences between species of Cladonotella, we used morphological characters to construct a neighbor-joining tree, and recovered our new species as distinct from congeners. To address the lack of natural history information on Cladonotella, we described habitat and other ecological observations made in Siargao Island on our new species.