Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil
Author
Fianco, Marcos
0000-0001-6662-6311
Author
Szinwelski, Neucir
0000-0003-4049-3121
Author
Faria, Luiz R. R.
0000-0002-7214-106X
fianco.marcos@gmail.com
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-05-13
5136
1
1
72
journal article
94100
10.11646/zootaxa.5136.1.1
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1175-5326
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Engonia
sp. 1
Fig. 10I, J
;
15C
Comments:
This species is probably new, differing from the three currently described species of
Engonia
,
E. minor
,
E. pistacina
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
and
E. rectangulata
Burmeister, 1838
. The individuals analysed here differentiate from the species of the genus by: (1) pronotal carinae tricolour (red, white and black), (2) white strip behind the eyes, towards the pronotum, (3) antennae entirely black, (4) pronotal disc with red punctations, (5) males with cerci dilated at its base and straight, in the apex a spine appears, where a spine appears, (6) subgenital plate almost square with posterior processes longer than large, (7) median keel across its length, (8) apex of tegmina acuminated, and (9) vertex fastigium bilobate. However, the lack of designation of
lectotypes
both for
E. minor
and
E. pistacina
precludes the description of this new species by now.
Bioacoustics
(
Fig. 12E–H
): Males produce echemes of moderate duration, where each sequence is composed by three to seven syllables. Each syllable is composed by five to eight isolated pulses, in a “tic” pattern, with syllables of opening and closing stroke. The hemisyllables of opening are of low intensity and frequency, and the closing are of high intensity and higher frequency. Additionally, during the syllables, the first pulses have smaller intensity than the last ones. The records of the calling song of
E. minor
and of
Engonia
sp. 1
are the first of species within Cosmophylla.
Dominant frequency
: 12.3 ± 1.2 kHz.
Bandwidth
: 5.2 ± 1.4 kHz.
Duration
: Pulse: 0.01 ±
0.005 s
; Syllable: 1.3 ±
0.1 s
; Echeme: 32 ± 5 s.
Mute interval
: Pulse: 0.1 ±
0.03 s
; Syllable: 9.6 ±
4.7 s
; Echeme: 500 ± 326 s.