Katydids of Costa Rica / Vol. 1, Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae sensu lato). Author Piotr Naskrecki text 2000 The Orthopterists Society at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA book 10.5281/zenodo.270035 647046fe-0ee5-401d-b4f8-aea0355fde7f 270035 Bucrates clausus (Scudder, 1878) Figs. 14 A-E, 46C-D, Map 9 1878 Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 94 >> Conocephalus ; type locality: Mexico , Jalisco ; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia – holotype female 1906 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. 2: 248 >> Conocephaloides 1912 Karny, in Wytsman, Gen. Ins. 139: 38 >> Homorocoryphus 1920 Rehn, J. A. G., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia 1920: 281 >> Bucrates 1997 Otte, Orth. Spec. File 7: 58 >> Neoconocephalus 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I ( CD ROM ) >> Bucrates ; holotype illustrated [syn.] Conocephalus laticeps = 1891 Redtenbacher, Monografie der Conocephaliden 1891: 385, 421 >> Conocephalus ; type locality: South America: Colombia : Santa fe de Bogota ; type depository: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna , Austria - lectotype female, here designated. 1898 Saussure and Pictet, Biol. Centr. Amer. Orth. 1: 389, 394 1906 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. 2: 248 >> Conocephaloides 1907 Karny, Abh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 4(3): 47 >> Conocephalus ( Homorocoryphus ) 1912 Karny, in Wytsman, Gen. Ins. 139: 37 >> Homorocoryphus 1997 Otte, Orth. Spec. File 7: 60 >> Neoconocephalus 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I ( CD ROM ) >>syn. of C. clausus ; lectotype illustrated Diagnostic description.— General characteristics as described above. Both sexes always macropterous, with tegmina well surpassing hind femora ( Fig. 14 A). Stridulatory file of male 2.8 mm long, with 136 teeth, maximum width of file 0.26 mm ( Figs. 46 C-D); teeth of file much thinner and spaced more densely in proximal fourth of file (110 teeth/mm) than thicker and less densely spaced teeth of distal end (23 teeth/mm). Mirror of stridulatory apparatus almost circular. Fastigium of vertex about twice as wide as scapus, continuous with fastigium of frons ( Figs. 14 B-C). Ovipositor approximately as long as hind femur (ratio ovipositor/hind femur 0.92-1.01), straight ( Fig. 14 A). Coloration .— Body coloration grass green or olive green, rarely brown; dorsum of pronotum and tegmina with darker, wide, longitudinal stripe; tegmina never speckled. Measurements .— Table 9 . Bioacoustics.— Song unknown. Taxonomic remarks.— A comparison of the type specimens of Conocephalus clausus Scudder and Conocephalus laticeps Redtenbacher clearly indicates their conspecific status. Therefore, Naskrecki and Otte (1999) regard C. laticeps as a junior synonym of C. clausus . Distribution.— B. clausus has been recorded from Veracruz , Mexico , Costa Rica , and Colombia . In Costa Rica it seems to be restricted to the Pacific region of the country ( Map 9 ). Material examined.— COSTA RICA : Alajuela Prov. , Caño Negro, R.N.V. S Caño Negro, elev. 20 m , 12 October 1993 (coll. K. Flores ) - 1 female ( INBio ); Puesto Playuelas, Caño Negro, R.N.V.S. Caño Negro, elev. 20 m , 2 September 1993 (coll. K. Martínez) - 1 female ( INBio ); Guanacaste Prov. , 3 k NO de Nacaome, P.N. Barra Honda, elev. 100 m , 5 October 1992 (coll. M. Reyes) - 1 male ( INBio ); same locality, elev. 100 m , 15 October 1993 (coll. M. Reyes) - 5 females ( INBio ); same locality, elev. 100 m , 15 November 1993 (coll. M. Reyes) - 4 males , 3 females ( INBio ); 5 mi N Cañas, PanAm Highway, 15 October 1969 (coll. E. Frankie) - 1 female ( ANIC ); Finca Jenny, 31 km N Liberia , elev. 300 m , 15 September 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 3 females ( INBio ); same locality, elev. 300 m , 15 October 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 female ( INBio ); same locality, elev. 300 m , 12 September 1992 (coll. F. Araya) - 1 female ( INBio ); Santa Rosa N. P., Playa Naranjo, 15 September 1990 (coll. E. Alcazar) - 1 female ( INBio ); Vicinity Estac. Murciélago, 8 km SW Cuajiniquil, elev. 100 m , 15 June 1989 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 male ( INBio ); COLOMBIA : Santa Fe de Bogota , (coll. Staudinger) - 1 female ( lectotype of Conocephalus laticeps Redtenbacher ) ( NHMW ); MEXICO : Jalisco – 1 female ( holotype ) ( ANSP ); Veracruz , Córdoba , 26 March 1953 (coll. D.H. Janzen) - 1 male ( EMEC ); San Andrés , Tuxtla, 8 July 1961 (coll. D.H. Janzen) - 1 female ( EMEC ); Tlacotalpán, 23 - 31 July 1961 (coll. D.H. Janzen) - 2 females ( EMEC ); Surinam : (coll. Fruhstorfer) - 1 male , 1 female ( NHMW ).