Agroecotettix cumbres Hill, 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hill, JoVonn G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Agroecotettix
Agroecotettix cumbres

description: Agroecotettix cumbres sp. nov.
Figs 2 F, 4 F, 5 F, 12 A – J, 25, 26 B
Diagnosis.
Differentiated from other species in the genus by the combination of male cerci that have the lower branch longer than the dorsal branch (Figs 2 F, 12 A, B) and the male aedeagus that has a thickened sheath, valves that are longer than the sheath, and broad valves that have their distal half angled caudally (Figs 4 F, 5 F, 12 C – G). Most similar to A. texmex but differs by having valves that are broader than that species both in lateral and caudal view (Figs 4 D, E, 5 D, E).
Male measurements (mm).
(n = 4) Body length 21.3–23.5 (mean = 22.5); pronotum length 4.7–5.5 (mean = 5.0); tegmen length 3.2–4.2 (mean = 3.7); hind femur length 11.1–12.2 (mean = 11.8); cerci length 1.7–1.9 (mean = 1.8); basal width of cercus 0.5–0.6 (mean = 0.6); mid-cercal width 0.4–0.5 (mean = 0.5); cerci dorsal fork length 0.5–0.7 (mean = 0.6); cerci dorsal fork apex width 0.5–0.7 (mean = 0.6); cerci ventral fork length 0.7–0.9 (mean = 0.8); cerci ventral fork apex width 1.0 (mean = 1.0).
Phallus measurements (mm).
(n = 4) Length 0.6–0.8 (mean = 0.8); apex width 0.3–0.4 (mean = 0.4); middle width 0.5–0.6 (mean = 0.6); basal width 0.5 (mean = 0.5); lateral apex width 0.2–0.3 (mean = 0.3); lateral medial width 0.4–0.5 (mean = 0.5); lateral basal width 0.6 (mean = 0.6).
Female measurements (mm).
(n = 11) Body length 24.1–28.0 (mean = 25.7); pronotum length 5.5–7.0 (mean = 6.4) tegmen length 4.0–5.0 (mean = 4.4); hind femur length 12.1–15.5 (mean = 14.3); dorsal ovipositor valve length 1.4–2.0 (mean = 1.7); ventral ovipositor valve length 1.4–2.0 (mean = 1.7).
Holotype.
• 1 ♂, Mexico, Nuevo Leòn, 500–800 m. 24 mi NW Montemorelos, 3 Sept. 1955, T. J. Cohn. Deposited in the Mississippi Entomological Museum.
Specimens examined.
Mexico, Nuevo Leòn: • 10 mi NW Montemorelos, 29 September 1958, T. J. Cohn, 2000 ft (1 ♂, 1 ♀) • 24 mi NW Montemorelos, 3 September 1955, T. J. Cohn (11 ♂, 2 ♀) • 5 mi SW Santiago, Horse Tail Falls, 29 September 1958. T. J. Cohn (1 ♂) • 6 mi SW Villa Santiago, 29 September 1958. T. J. Cohn (1 ♂, 3 ♀).
Distribution.
Area to the south of Monterrey, Mexico and in and east of Monterrey Peaks (Figs 25, 26 B).
Habitat.
Cohn (1955) describes the locality at 24 mi NW Montemorelos as a rocky hillside with a draw and thorny bushes and at 6 mi SW Villa de Santiago as rolling as country in heavy spiney bushes, fairly thick and more than 8 ft tall. Cohn (1964) describes the locality at the Monterrey airport as badly overgrazed range, but with a good variety of green, thick, bushes, including fair-sized mesquite and other leguminous trees, soil sloped.
Etymology.
The specific epithet cumbres is the Spanish word for summits and is in reference to the Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey and the mountain summits near where this species found.
Suggested common name.
Cumbres aridland scrub jumper.
description: Published as part of Hill, JoVonn G., 2024, Desert diversification: revision of Agroecotettix Bruner, 1908 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae) with descriptions of sixteen new species from the United States and Mexico, pp. 177-230 in ZooKeys 1218 on pages 177-230, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1218.133703