Caulopsis microprora Hebard 1926
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Caulopsis
Caulopsis microprora

description: <i>Caulopsis microprora</i> Hebard, 1926 Figs. 18 A, 18C-F, 48H-I, Map 11 1926 Hebard, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 52: 333; type locality: Colombia: Magdalena, Aracataca; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia - holotype male 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) &gt;&gt; holotype illustrated on the remainder of file (Figs. 48 H-I). Mirror of stridulatory apparatus nearly circular. Fastigium of vertex usually about 2 to 2.5 times as long as eye diameter, with sides evenly converging when seen from above, and pointed apically (Fig. 18 D). Ovipositor distinctly longer than hind femur (ratio ovipositor/hind femur 1.12-1.27), distinctly downcurved (Fig. 18 A). <i>Measurements</i>.— Table 13. <i>Distribution.—</i> This species is distributed from Nicaragua and Costa Rica throughout Panama to Colombia (Map 11). <i>Material examined.—</i> <b>COSTA RICA:</b> Diria, 14 March 1916 (coll. A. Alfaro) - 1 female (ANSP); <b>Cartago Prov.</b>, I.I.A.C., Turrialba, 27 July 1965 (coll. R.D. Sage and S.J. Arnold) - 1 female (EMEC); Turrialba, 4 - 13 August 1970 (coll. J. and M. Sedlacek) - 1 male, 1 female (BPBM); Turrialba, Agr. Sta., 10 February 1966 (coll. H.R. Roberts) - 1 female (ANSP); <b>Heredia Prov.</b>, Finca Naranjo Valenciana, 2 km S Pueblo Nuevo, Sarapiquí, elev. 90 m, 9 - 30 September 1992 (coll. M. Ortiz) - 2 females (ALAS, INBio); Puerto Viejo, 6 April 1969 (coll. D.C.F. Rentz) - 1 male (ANIC); Puerto Viejo, La Selva Biological Station, elev. 50 - 150 m, 10° 26' N, 84° 1' W, 1 - 4 April 1994 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 2 males, 3 females, 2 nymphs (PN collection); same locality, 14 October 1995 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 3 males, 3 females, 6 nymphs (ALAS); same locality, 30 November 1995 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 1 male, 1 female (PN collection); <b>Puntarenas Prov.</b>, Estac. Esquinas, Península de Osa, elev. 200 m, 29 December 1992 (coll. A. Gutiérrez) - 1 male (INBio); Est Esquinas, Península de Osa, elev. 0 m, 15 January 1993 (coll. F. Quesada) - 1 male (INBio); Las Cruces, 1 July - 31 August 1991 (coll. J. Doubles) - 1 male (UMMZ); Rancho Quemado, Península de Osa, elev. 200 m, 12 - 24 May 1993 (coll. A. Gutiérrez) - 1 male (INBio); <b>PANAMA:</b> Canal Zone, Barro Colorado, 19 July 1924 (coll. N. Banks) - 1 male (MCZC); Pipeline rd., NW of Gamboa, 21 January 1975 (coll. D.C. Rentz) - 1 male (ANIC); <b>COLOMBIA</b>: Magdalena, Aracataca, 8 August 1920 - 3 males (holotype and paratypes), 1 female (allotype) (ANSP); Medellín, Verra Cruz, (coll. M. Hyde) - 1 female (ANSP). <i>Diagnostic description.—</i> General characteristics as described above. Stridulatory file of male 1.4 mm long, with 110 teeth, maximum width of file 80 μm; proximal end of file nearly straight, with teeth considerably smaller than
description: Published as part of <i>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,</i> on page 78, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270035