Cota saxosa Bolívar, 1887

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, Domenico, Fernando Campos De & Sperber, Carlos Frankl, 2019, New tribes, overview and checklist of Neotropical Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae), Insecta Mundi 723 (723), pp. 1-38 : 30-31

Cota saxosa Bolívar, 1887

Fig. 19

Description. Head with carinula transversal to vertex, between the eyes, with cusp shape surpassing dorsal margin of the eyes, forming small horns in frontal view with a tricuspidate form; anterior margin of pronotum and first cusp rounded, lateral lobe of pronotum directed sidewards with tricuspid shape; fore and middle femur with undulated carina, lappets and protuberances saxose (i.e., similar to ‘stones’) ( Fig. 19 ).

Comments. There is a specimen housed at the NMW classified as syntype ( Paris, 1994) ( Fig. 19 ) however there is no indication of other specimens and this specimen is a holotype.

Figures

Figure 19. Cota saxosa Bolívar, 1887, holotype female. A) Left lateral view. B) Dorsal view. C) Ventral view. D) Frontal view with arrows pointing to the Hancock’s and Bolívar’s tricuspidate form. E) Labels. Scale bar = 2 mm. © Natural History Museum Vienna, NOaS Image Collection / H. Bruckner; published with permission.