Revisionary study of Pediella Roberts (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) from the Andes Highlands Author Cigliano, M. M. División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT La Plata CONICET-CEPAVE, Paseo del Bosque 1900, La Plata, Argentina. Author Amedegnato, C. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Evolution, Entomologie, UMR 7205, OSEB, case 50, 45, rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France Author Pocco, M. E. División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT La Plata CONICET-CEPAVE, Paseo del Bosque 1900, La Plata, Argentina. Author Lange, C. E. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas (CIC) de la provincia de Buenos Aires, CCT La Plata, CEPAVE, CONICET-UNLP, calle 2 # 584, La Plata (1900), Argentina text Zootaxa 2010 2010-04-20 2431 1 51 61 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2431.1.3 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.2431.1.3 1175-5326 5309415 Pediella colorata Roberts ( Figs. 1A ; 4A,E ; 5A–E ) Holotype male 2 , Venezuela , San Pablo , 3000 m . Upper Timber line, November 9, 1899 , ANSP . The type is unique. Diagnosis. Similar to P. cajamarcaensis , from which it differs mainly in the shape of the male cerci wider with blunt apex and differences in the phallic complex (sheath of aedeagus narrower; broader rami). Redescription. Body color dorsally dark brownish green, face and thorax ventrally greenish cream; epimeron cream; abdominal sternites and subgenital plate bright orange red; ventral area of first and second pair of legs red; ventral and inner of hind femora and hind tibiae bright red. Cerci slender, slightly flattened distally, apex blunt ( Figs. 4A, E ). Phallic complex ( Figs. 5A–E ): endophallic plates wide and short; distal portion of apical valves of aedeagus projected ventrally into a longitudinal keel; arch of cingulum highly developed. Female: unknown. Measurements. Body length 18.00 mm; femur III length 10.00 mm. Observations. The type locality is uncertain but, as mentioned by Roberts (1937) it is probably 50 km southwest of Mérida on the slopes of San Pablo . Distribution. Venezuela , Merida , based by the registered altitude in the species inhabits in the Páramos. 1. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/key/KeyDriver.aspx?BlockID=2189 2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/ShowImage.aspx?TaxonNameID=42363&ImageID=68974