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
Eriolus acutipennis
Saussure et Pictet, 1898
Figs. 32
E-G,
Map 16
1898 Saussure and Pictet, Biol. Centr. Amer. Orth. 1: 384;
type
locality:
Panama
, Bugaba,
800-1500 ft
.;
type
depository: The Natural History Museum, London –
holotype
female.
1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (
CD
ROM
) >>
holotype
illustrated
Diagnostic description.—
Body small, with wings in both sexes extending beyond apices of hind
femora
by less than 1/3 of their length. Fastigium of vertex small, blunt, about as long as eye diameter. Prosternum unarmed. Male stridulatory file and left stridulatory area damaged in the only available male specimen; mirror approximately rectangular, with rounded corners. Tenth tergite in both sexes with two small, roughly triangular lobes; male cercus straight, slightly thickened subapically, with small sub-basal tooth internally (
Fig. 32
E); female cercus simple, elongately conical, somewhat curved. Male titillators elongate, flattened, with subapical, round dilatations, apices truncated (
Fig. 32
G). Male subgenital plate with deep, rectangular incision, resulting in styli being situated on long, widely separated lobes; styli long and thin; female subgenital plate wider than long, with minute, triangular lobe on its hind margin. Ovipositor short, sickle-shaped, about as long as half of hind femur (ratio ovipositor/hind femur 0.53) (
Fig. 32
F).
Coloration
.— General coloration light green; clypeus and mandibles green; pronotum in both sexes with two thin, yellow stripes on dorsal edges of pronotum; posterior edge of metazona in male with two small, brown, rectangular markings.
Measurements
.—
Table 23
.
Distribution
.— This species is known only from the southernmost portion of
Puntarenas
Prov. (
Map 16
) and adjacent areas of
Panama
(Bugaba).
Material examined.—
COSTA RICA
:
Puntarenas
Prov.
, Las Alturas,
15 July - 15 August 1991
(coll. J. Doubles) -
1 female
(
UMMZ
);
Valle
de Coto Brus, Las Cruces, Wilson Botanical Gardens, elev.
700 - 1000 m
,
1 - 6 December 1995
(coll. P. Naskrecki) -
1 male
(
ANSP
);
PANAMA
:
Bugaba,
800-1500 ft
., Champion –
1 female
(
holotype
) (
BMNH
).