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
Lipotactomimus rowelli
Naskrecki
,
sp. n.
Figs. 4
A-D,
Map 3
Type
locality:
Costa Rica
,
San José
Prov., Ciudad
Colón
, Hda. El Rodeo, Fila Diamante;
type
depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia –
holotype
female
Diagnostic description.—
As described above. Ovipositor (
Fig. 4
A) shorter than hind femur - ratio ovipositor/ hind femur 0.6.
Measurements
(female
holotype
) (mm).
—
body with wings 10; pronotum 2.5; tegmen 6.3; hind femur 9.3; ovipositor 5.
Material examined.—
COSTA RICA
:
San José
Prov.
, Ciudad
Colón
, Hda. El Rodeo, Fila Diamante, elev.
1025 m
,
21 Aug. 1997
, coll. C.H.F. Rowell -
1 female
(
holotype
) (
ANSP
).
Etymology
.
—
Named after C. Hugh Fraser Rowell, a prominent orthopterist and neurobiologist, as well as the collector of the only specimen of this new species.