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
Hyperphrona punctulata
Brunner
von Wattenwyl, 1891
Mesaphyllum peruvianum
Piza, 1971
syn. nov.
Mesapyllum
Piza, 1971
syn. nov.
of
Hyperphrona
Brunner
von Wattenwyl, 1878
This genus, created for a male specimen from northeastern
Peru
(Río Amazonas, Iquitos), is compared to
Coelophyllum
(now synonym of
Itarissa
). Within the genus group Phyllopterae it fits much better in
Hyperphrona
, and is without much doubt identical with
H. punctulata
, described from the upper Amazon. It has longer tegmina and hind femora than the male
syntype
of that species, but venation and stridulatory area of the tegmina, shape of pronotum, and particularly the cerci coincide very well. The female
syntype
of
H. punctulata
shows the same darkened clypeus as Piza’s specimen. On the latter’s tegmina is visible a line of faint orangish spots above the radial vein, apparently the eponymous “
serie punctorum ferrugineorum
” of Brunner von Wattenwyl’s species.