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
Eschatoceras spinifrons
(De Geer, 1773)
Lobaspis parva
Piza, 1976
syn. nov.
Lobaspis
has been synonymized under
Nicsara
, and all the other 34 species of this genus are distributed in
Australia
, New
Guinea
, the
Philippines
and
Indonesia
. Piza actually mentioned that his species would be the first one for the American continents. However, the male
holotype
and an additional female specimen look like typical members of the genus
Eschatoceras
, whose known distribution includes
Ecuador
,
Bolivia
,
Suriname
,
Guyana
and
Brazil
. We compared these specimens with photos of the
type
specimens of
E. spinifrons
in OSF, and in addition to an identical habitus they share various details which confirm their conspecifity (very similar dark markings on the pronotum, on fore and middle tibiae, and hind femur).