Tropicophyllum curupira, Mendes & Rafael, 2025

Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello & Rafael, José Albertino, 2025, Review of Anapolisia Piza, 1980 and Tropicophyllum Koçak & Kemal, 2008 stat. rev. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Microcentrini), Zootaxa 5564 (1), pp. 1-184 : 118

Tropicophyllum curupira sp. nov. ♂

Tropicophyllum gurupi sp. nov. ♂

Tropicophyllum mapinguari sp. nov. ♂

Tropicophyllum uirapuru sp. nov. ♂

Tropicophyllum zonatum ( Giglio-Tos, 1898) comb. nov. ♂ ♀ (type-species)

Key to males of Tropicophyllum ( Figs. 134–136 )

Species-group Tropicophyllum colosseum comb. nov.

Figures 134–139

Coments. Group formed by a species with wide distribution, occurring from Panama to Colombia ( Fig. 139 ). Characterized by enlarged tegmina; vein MA with six main branches reaching wing margin ( Fig. 135 ). Tegmina with six narrow and well-defined hyaline bands, overlapping the branches of the M and CuA veins; hyaline bands with small circular patches lined up ( Fig. 135 ); vein MP and last branch of CuA vein forming a pentagonal cell ( Fig. 135 ); all femora ventrally with several small spines ( Figs. 134F–H ). Together with the species of the Tropicophyllum sentum comb. nov. group, they are the largest katydids of this genus. It is possible that, as discovered in this study for the other groups of species of Tropicophyllum stat. rev., it is likely that within the current distribution of T. colloseum comb. nov., there are new cryptic species.

Figures

FIGURE 134. Tropicophyllum colosseum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) comb. nov., male. A: habitus, dorsal view; B: head, frontal view; C: head and pronotum, dorsal view; D: head and pronotum, lateral view; E: Thoracic sternites, ventral view; F: foreleg, lateral view; G: midleg, lateral view; H: hindleg, lateral view; I–J: Terminalia in ventral and dorsal view respectively; K: Apex of cercus, dorsal view. Abbreviations: Mes: mesobasisternum; Met: metabasisternum; Cer: cercus; Sty: stylus; Pl: subgenital plate.

FIGURE 135. Tropicophyllum colosseum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) comb. nov., left tegmina of male in dorsal view. Abbreviations: AP: Posterior anal vein; AA: anterior anal vein; CuA: anterior cubital vein; CuP: posterior cubital vein; MA: anterior median vein; MP: posterior median vein; R: radial vein; Sc: subcostal vein.

FIGURE 136. Tropicophyllum colosseum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) comb. nov., stridulatory file of male. A: left file; B: right file.

FIGURE 137. Tropicophyllum colosseum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) comb. nov., male internal genitalia. A–B: phallus, ventral view; C–D: phallus, dorsal view.Abbreviations: DF: dorsal fold; DL: dorsal lobe(s); EV: ejaculatory vesicle; TI: titillator process; Lw. vl.: lower folds of ventral lobe; Up. vl.: upper folds of ventral lobe.

FIGURE 138. Tropicophyllum colosseum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) comb. nov., holotype female. A: habitus, dorsal view; B: ovipositor, lateral view.; C: labels.

FIGURE 139. Map of Tropicophyllum colosseum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) comb. nov. geographical records.