TY - JOUR
T1 - A new species of Diplatys (Insecta, Dermaptera, Diplatyidae) earwig from the Western Ghats of India
AU - Karthik, Chikkabidare M.
AU - Kamimura, Yoshitaka
AU - Kalleshwaraswamy, Chicknayakanahalli M.
N1 - Funding Information:
CMK and CMK thank the Director of Research, Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, for providing the necessary facilities for the research. We thank Ranjith, Kavya yadav, Sandeep, Santrupti, and Loka Mounika for helping in the field. We are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, which greatly improved the manuscript. This research was partly supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science via Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) #19K06746 to YK.
Publisher Copyright:
© C. M. Karthik et al.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - To explore diversity of earwigs (Dermaptera) in different agricultural ecosystems of South India, an extensive taxonomic survey was conducted in 2020 during which an undescribed species of Diplatys was collected. Twenty-one species of the genus Diplatys (Diplatyidae, Diplatyinae) have been reported to date from India, of which six species are known from Karnataka, South India. Based on a male specimen collected from a sugarcane field in Karnataka, a new species, Diplatys sahyadriensis sp. nov., is described as the twenty-second species of this genus from India. A revised key to the males of Diplatys species from India and Sri Lanka is provided. This new record adds to the known species diversity in the Sahyadri Ranges of the Western Ghats in Shivamogga District, Karnataka, part of the Southern Plateau and Hills agro-climatic region of India.
AB - To explore diversity of earwigs (Dermaptera) in different agricultural ecosystems of South India, an extensive taxonomic survey was conducted in 2020 during which an undescribed species of Diplatys was collected. Twenty-one species of the genus Diplatys (Diplatyidae, Diplatyinae) have been reported to date from India, of which six species are known from Karnataka, South India. Based on a male specimen collected from a sugarcane field in Karnataka, a new species, Diplatys sahyadriensis sp. nov., is described as the twenty-second species of this genus from India. A revised key to the males of Diplatys species from India and Sri Lanka is provided. This new record adds to the known species diversity in the Sahyadri Ranges of the Western Ghats in Shivamogga District, Karnataka, part of the Southern Plateau and Hills agro-climatic region of India.
KW - Diplatys sahyadriensis sp. nov.
KW - Karnataka
KW - Sri Lanka
KW - sugarcane
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U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.1088.79416
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.1088.79416
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85127811610
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2022
SP - 53
EP - 64
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 1088
ER -