Pluviasilva mexicana Naskrecki

Piotr Naskrecki, 2000, Katydids of Costa Rica / Vol. 1, Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae sensu lato)., Philadelphia, PA: The Orthopterists Society at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, : 111

Pluviasilva mexicana Naskrecki , sp. n.

Figs. 29 B, 29D-E, 51F

Type locality: Mexico, Veracruz, 5 mi E Córdoba, elev. 670.56 m; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia – holotype male

Diagnostic description.— General characteristics as described above. Stridulatory file of male 1.4 mm long, with 112 lamelliform teeth, maximum width of file 0.09 mm ( Fig. 51 F). Male cercus as in Figs. 29 D-E. Ovipositor distinctly longer than hind femur - ratio ovipositor/hind femur 1.21-1.44, usually exceeding or at least reaching apex of tegmina (not reaching apex of tegmina only in specimens with poorly preserved, shrunk abdomen).

Measurements.— Table 21 .

Material examined.— MEXICO: Chiapas Prov., 12 mi. W Teapa on Pichucalco Rd., elev. 60.96 m, 9 September 1959 (coll. I.J. Cantrall and T.J. Cohn) - 1 female (paratype) ( UMMZ); Veracruz, 2.6 rd. mi. SW Fortín de las Flores, 7 - 10 November 1961 (coll. T.J. Cohn and S.P. Hubbell) - 2 females (paratypes) ( UMMZ); 5 mi E Córdoba, elev. 670.56 m, 29 August 1936 (coll. H.R. Roberts) - 1 male (holotype), 3 females (allotype and paratypes) ( ANSP).

Figures

FIG. 29. Species of Pluviasilva. A, C, F-J. P. levis: A. male - habitus, C. ovipositor, F. male cerci, lateral view, G. male cerci, dorsal view, H. titillators, I. male head and pronotum, dorsal view, J. male face; B, D-E. P. mexicana: B. male - habitus, D. male cerci, lateral view, E. male cerci, dorsal view.

FIG. 51. Stridulatory files of Costa Rican species of Conocephalinae s. l. A. Subria sylvestris, C. Podacanthophorus maylinae, C. Podacanthophorus alas, D. Podacanthophorus vargasi, E. Pluviasilva levis, F. Pluviasilva mexicana.