Cota 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

Key to the species of Cota Bolívar, 1887 (adapted from Bruner (1910) and Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda (2015)).

1. First cusp on pronotum rounded or subquadrate................................... 2

— First cusp on pronotum spiniform....................... C. bispina (Saussure, 1861)

2. First cusp on pronotum subquadrate and lateral lobe of pronotum rounded at apex.................................................. C. strumosa Bolívar, 1887 ( Fig. 20 )

— First cusp on pronotum rounded and lateral lobe of pronotum with other shape......... 3

3. Lateral lobe of pronotum with tricuspid shape......... C. saxosa Bolívar, 1887 ( Fig. 19 )

— Lateral lobe of pronotum subquadrate............................................... C. undulata ( Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda, 2015) n. comb. ( Fig. 21 )

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.

Figure 20. Cota strumosa Bolívar, 1887, lectotype male. A) Left lateral view. B) Dorsal view with labels. Photos by Josip Skejo (MNCN).

Figure 21. Cota undulata (Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda, 2015) n. comb., holotype male, left lateral view. Photo by Oscar J. Cadena-Castañeda (CAUD).