The Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) described by Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr. and deposited in the collection of the University of São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura " Luiz de Queiroz ", Brazil
Author
Chamorro-Rengifo, Juliana
Author
Braun, Holger
text
Zootaxa
2010
2635
41
66
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.198409
4eb51d5a-162f-4e84-89b2-dca495a07b9f
1175-5326
198409
Callinsara zebrina
(Piza, 1980)
comb. nov.
Paraterpnistria zebrina
Piza, 1980
Paraterpnistria
Piza, 1980
syn. nov.
of
Callinsara
Rehn, 1913
As the genus name indicates, Piza compared his male specimen from northeastern
Brazil
only to the African genus
Terpnistria
, whose
type
species
T. zebrata
actually looks a little bit similar. The specimen also resembles the female
type
of
Sictuna strigata
Walker, 1896
from
Venezuela
(two small photos of dorsal views in OSF), which has similarly coloured and shaped tegmina, and very similar dark fringes at the rear margin of the pronotal metazona. But the metazona is much broader in Piza’s specimen, and its fastigium is more acuminate. According to Bruner’s (1916) key in
Sictuna
the auditory openings in the foretibia are linear, while they are fairly broad and oval in Piza’s specimen. This specimen is also quite similar to the male
holotype
of
Callinsara clupeipennis
Rehn, 1913
from northeastern
Argentina
(the
type
species of that genus, that includes a second species from
Bolivia
), which also has translucent fringes along the transversal veins of the tegmina. Also the shapes of pronotum and stridulatory area are fairly similar. Since Piza’s specimen fits very well into Rehn’s (1913) diagnosis of
Callinsara
, we move it there. However, upon closer examination of specimens it might turn out that
Callinsara
is in fact identical with the monospecific genus
Sictuna
.