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Issue: Vol. 3784 No. 2: 27 Mar. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.2.2
Page range: 120–130
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Endecous apterus: A new species of cave cricket from northeast Brazil, with comments on the use of subterranean habitats by Luzarinae crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae: Luzarinae)

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101, 05508-900, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, rod. Washington Luis, km 235, 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101, 05508-900, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, distrito de Rubião Jr., s/n, 18618-000, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Grylloidea Phalangopsidae Luzarinae New species Cave life

Abstract

In this study we describe the first apterous species of Endecous Saussure (1878), collected in two caves at Ituaçu, Bahia State, Brazil. In Brazil, Endecous is the most widespread cricket in hypogean environments and its species can colonize caves and inhabit the entrance and the aphotic zones; Endecous species can also be found in the litter, rock gullies, crevices, burrows, and any natural cavities. The use of subterranean habitat by Endecous crickets and its related genera are discussed.