Eppia truncatipennis Stal 1876
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eppia
Eppia truncatipennis

description: <i>Eppia truncatipennis</i> Stål, 1876 Figs. 24 A-E, 48E, 57C-D, Map 13 1876 Stål, Observ. Orth., Bihang Vet.-akad. 3:42; type locality: Panama, Chiriquí; type depository: Naturihistoriska Rijksmuseum, Stockholm – holotype female <i>Diagnostic description.—</i> General characteristics as described above. Male stridulatory file (n=1) 2 mm long, with 112 teeth, maximum width of teeth 140 μm (Fig. 48 E). <i>Measurements</i> (in mm). <i>—</i> (6 males, 7 females; range, avrg±SD) body with wings: male 50.3-57.8, 53.1±2.7, female 53.9-59.9, 56.5±2.1; pronotum: male 8.5-10.2, 9.1±0.6, female 8.9-9.7, 9.3±0.3; tegmen: male 41.8-47.3, 44.1±2, female 45.4-49.8, 47.3±1.6; hind femur: male 24.6-28.2, 26.1±1.2, female 26-29.5, 27.4±1.3; ovipositor: 12.5-15.1, 14±0.9. <i>Bioacoustics.—</i> The call of <i>E. truncatipennis</i> (based on a specimen from Gamboa, Panama, courtesy of M. Greenfield) consist of a series of rapid chirps, produced at the rate of about 3/s (temperature unknown). Each chirp, lasting 105.3-139.5 ms (n=15), consists of 6-7 pulses (Figs. 57 C-D). Most energy of the call is allocated between 8 and 9.5 kHz, and in the first harmonic between 16 and 19 kHz. The energy distribution above 22 kHz is unknown. <i>Material examined.—</i> <b>COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Prov.</b>, 4 km NW of San Vito de Java (jct. of road and Río Java), elev. 914.4 m, 20 January 1967 (coll. I.J. Cantrall) - 4 females (UMMZ); Península de Osa, Rancho Quemado, elev. 200 m, 15 November 1992 (coll. R. Aguilar, M. Segura and F. Quesada) - 1 male (INBio); Rancho Quemado, Pen. Osa, 15 February 1991 (coll. F. Quesada) - 1 female (INBio); Rancho Quemado Península de Osa, elev. 200 m, 15 October 1992 (coll. F. Quesada) - 1 female (INBio); Rancho Quemado, Península de Osa, elev. 200 m, 19 - 27 August 1993 (coll.A. Gutiérrez) - 1 female (INBio); Sirena, Corcovado N.P., elev. 0 - 100 m, 15 October 1990 (coll. J.C. Saborio) - 1 male (INBio); <b>COLOMBIA</b>: Dept. Magdalena, Río Frío, 22 March 1925 (coll. F.W. Walker) - 24 males, 32 females (UMMZ); <b>ECUADOR</b>: Guayas Prov., Río Frío, 20 km E of Hda. Balao Chico, 26 - 27 April 1963 (coll. Hubbell and Peña) - 3 females (UMMZ); <b>MEXICO:</b> Chiapas Prov., Dist. Soconusco, Finca Esperanza, 14 - 17 July 1937 (coll. Hartweg-Brodkorp) - 1 female (UMMZ); <b>PANAMA:</b> Bocas del Toro, Changuinola, 14 January 1922 (coll. F. Cobb) - 1 male (UMMZ); Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island, 16 - 18 March 1926 (coll. F.M. Gaige) - 2 males (UMMZ); same locality, 2 January 1967 (coll. I.J. Cantrall) - 1 male (UMMZ); same locality, 27 January 1968 (coll. O.J. Sexton) - 1 female (UMMZ); S-9 Road (ca. 6 km SW Gatun), 30 December 1972 (coll. E.A. Strauch) - 1 female (UMMZ); Panama, top of Cerro Azul (10 mi. E and 9 mi. N Panama City), 14 January 1967 (coll. I.J. Cantrall) - 1 female (UMMZ).
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 95, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270035