Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Guartelá State Park, State of Paraná, Southern Brazil: diversity, bioacoustics and description of five new species
Author
Fianco, Marcos
text
Journal of Natural History
2023
2023-07-24
57
1
1080
1137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2231579
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Phaneropteroides longicercatus
Piza
(
Figure 16
)
Female
(
first description)
Body small; legs long and slender; greenish with reddish marks, body green and wings olivaceous when alive (
Figure 16a
).
Head
: fastigium of frons, U-upside down shaped (
Figure 16b
); frons and gena plain in colour, yellowish green; fastigium of vertex globose (
Figure 16b–d
); a narrow yellowish line on medial region, from fastigium, going through vertex and occiput towards pronotum, surrounded by a broad reddish band (
Figure 16b, 16d
); eyes quite big and projected (
Figure 16b–d
).
Thorax
: pronotal disc smooth; a narrow yellowish band on medial region, surrounded by a broad grey band (
Figure 16b–c
). Tegmina quite narrow, distinctly smaller than hind wings, also narrow (
Figure 16f–g
); RP leaving R after the middle of tegmen, branching in the apical third of tegmen; M straight until the final fourth, bending slightly posteriorly after that; hind wings reddish, especially on veins, but visible region in resting position greenish (
Figure 16e,
16g
).
Abdomen
: ovipositor (
Figure 16e
) 2× longer than pronotum, but 3× smaller than tegmina; dorsal valves broader than ventral valves; tapering gradually; serrulations quite reduced, almost spectral; slightly curved.
Comments
This is, so far, the first record of this species after the original publication in the 1970s; additionally, it is the first formal record for a female of the species.
Piza (1971)
only describes the male; however, I was able to visit his collection housed in the ′
Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz
–
ESALQ
–
USP
,
São Paulo
̍, and besides the male there is a female of the species, with a label indicating it is an
allotype
.
However
, it was not described or even mentioned in his publication, so, according to
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
–
ICZN
, the female is not a valid
allotype
/
paratype
.
Compared to other Anaulacomerina species, this species has the leg III quite long and slender, fore and hind wings much narrow, posterior wings reddish. These characteristics, in combination, do not occur in any other species or genera of the subtribe. The ovipositor is relatively smaller, less curved, and with smaller serrulations.
Figure 16.
Phaneropteroides longicercatus
, female. (a)
in vivo
individual; (b) head, anterior view; (c) head and pronotum, lateral view; (d) head and pronotum, dorsal view; (e) ovipositor, lateral view; (f) female left tegmen (veins: black = ScP; blue = R; red = M); (g) hindwing.
Examined material
One
female, ′
Brasil
,
PR
,
Tibagi
,
Parque
\
Estadual do Guartelá
[Guartelá State Park]\
24.5660° S
,
50.2561°W
10–13
.ii
.2021 Armadilha\luminosa [light trap] M. Fianco, D.N. Barbosa & P.W. Engelking̍.