A brief revision of brachypterous Phaneropterinae of the tropical Andes (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Odonturini)
Author
Braun, Holger
text
Zootaxa
2011
2991
35
43
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.207670
aeb5e321-323d-4228-a787-f436ac55600f
1175-5326
207670
Cohnia andeana
(
Hebard 1924
)
Dichopetala andeana
Hebard 1924
This species was for a long time apparently only known from the original
type
series of eight males and females from southern
Ecuador
, collected in the environs of Loja at
2200 m
. Only a few years ago the Italian colleagues discovered on their expeditions an abundant population near Catamayo, air-line distance about
20 km
west of Loja (around
35 km
road distance), at
1500 m
. There the katydids live in the dense shrub-like vegetation covering the hillsides, and can also be found in grassy vegetation along the road to
Loja (
Buzzetti
et al.
2010
)
. Very recently the new and so far monospecific genus
Cohnia
Buzzetti, Fontana & Carotti 2010
was created, to separate this species from
Dichopetala
, a mostly Mexican genus, whose species typically do not occur further south. The separation is based on morphology of the pronotum, male cerci, titillators, and female subgenital plate. The pronotum disk is not restricted in the middle in contrast to the two previous genera, and the lateral lobes are perpendicular. Tegmina are of roughly the same length as the pronotum.