Phaulula figurata, Gorochov, 2025

Phaulula figurata Gorochov, sp. n.

https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/ 52DED021-24B4-435E-8AF6-FE5740AFB385

Figs 53, 54 View Figs 49–54 , 59, 60 View Figs 55–60 , 68–72 View Figs 61–72

MATERIAL. Holotype – ♂, Philippines: Mindanao I., ~ 150 km NNW of Dabaw City, environs of Dahilayan Adventure Park (8º11ʹ38ʹʹ N, 124º51ʹ39ʹʹ E), 1000–1500 m, primary/secondary forest, at light, 2–9.II 2024, A. Gorochov , M. Omelko, I. Naumenko ( ZIN). Paratypes: 1 ♂, 5 ♀, same data as for holotype ( ZIN) GoogleMaps .

DESCRIPTION. Male (holotype). General appearance somewhat different from that of all species described above in more distinctly dotted coloration and narrower tegmina with two branches on RS (more primitive condition). Also this male distinguished from them by the following characters: body size approximately as in Ph. tuberculata sp. n.; integument matte, but most part of head (except for epicranial dorsum), legs, transparent wing membranes and last tergite somewhat shining; coloration yellowish with slight brownish tinge, whitish head (except for yellowish epicranial dorsum and darkened most part of antennal flagellum) and lower part of thorax and abdomen, numerous reddish dots on different body parts (epicranial dorsum, pronotum, pleurites, femora and abdominal tergites; but last tergite without dots, and dots on pronotal disc and abdominal tergites slightly larger than other ones), sparse rose dots on middle and hind tibiae, greyish brown middle and distal portions of antennal flagellum (having very sparse and small whitish spots), brown posterior edge of hind pronotal lobe, dark brown marks in tegmina and transparent wing membranes as in Ph. tuberculata sp. n., almost yellowish lemon widened part of left dorsal tegminal field after stridulatory vein, and some darkened marks on tarsi ( Figs 53, 54 View Figs 49–54 , 59 View Figs 55–60 , 68–70 View Figs 61–72 ); body structure distinguished from that of Ph. tuberculata sp. n. by somewhat shorter pronotum (see measurements) with roundly truncated posterior edge of disc, by slightly narrower tegmina with two branches on RS ( Fig. 54 View Figs 49–54 ) and with stridulatory apparatus as in Figs 59 and 60 View Figs 55–60 , by last tergite having distinctly narrower posteromedian process (this process moderately short, strongly narrowed in subapical part, roundly widened and dorsoventrally flattened in apical part, with dorsomedian vertical keel running almost from base of last tergite to this apical part and having highest portion in shape of distinct angular projection at base of this keel; as in Figs 68, 70 View Figs 61–72 ), and by cerci and genital plate as in Figs 68–70 View Figs 61–72 .

Variations. Paratype with pronotal darkened dots smaller, abdominal and femoral ones almost indistinct, and posterior edge of pronotum completely light.

Female. Size, coloration and many other characters similar to those of males, but: widened proximal parts of dorsal tegminal fields gradually narrowing to their narrow distal parts, without distinct stridulatory apparatus, and uniformly yellowish with dark brown cell membranes in distal portions of these widened parts; last tergite smaller and simple, with almost straight posterior edge; epiproct also small, similar to short and roundly lobule-like paraprocts in shape; genital plate and ovipositor as in Figs 71, 72 View Figs 61–72 (base of each lower valve of ovipositor with one small and tubercle-like spinule directed laterally).

Length (in mm). Body: male 16–18, female 17–20; body with wings: male 36.5– 38, female 40–43; pronotum: male 3.9–4.1, female 4.2–4.5; tegmina: male 29–30, female 31–33.5; hind femora: male 16–16.5, female 17–19; ovipositor 7.2–7.6.

COMPARISON. The new species also belongs to the third group and is distinguished from all other true and possible congeners by the following combination of features: the body is approximately as in Ph. tuberculata sp. n. in the size but with numerous reddish dots, without darkened marks on the fore tibiae, with the tegminal RS having two branches in the distal third of each tegmen, with the male last tergite having a very characteristic posteromedian process ( Figs 68–70 View Figs 61–72 ), and with the male cercus having thin and almost spine-like as well as somewhat hooked distal part. Another species from the same island ( Ph. galeata ) has the posteromedian process of the male last tergite clearly larger than in the new species and vaguely intermediate between that of Ph. tapienomima sp. n. and Ph. figurata sp. n. in the shape.

ETYMOLOGY. The new species name is the Latin word “figurata ” (figurate, figured) given due to a characteristic shape of the male last tergite posteromedian process.