Bucrates clausus Scudder 1878
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Bucrates
Bucrates clausus

description: <i>Bucrates clausus</i> (Scudder, 1878) Figs. 14 A-E, 46C-D, Map 9 1878 Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 94 &gt;&gt; <i>Conocephalus;</i> type locality: Mexico, Jalisco; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia – holotype female 1906 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. 2: 248 &gt;&gt; <i>Conocephaloides</i> 1912 Karny, in Wytsman, Gen. Ins. 139: 38 &gt;&gt; <i>Homorocoryphus</i> 1920 Rehn, J. A. G., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia 1920: 281 &gt;&gt; <i>Bucrates</i> 1997 Otte, Orth. Spec. File 7: 58 &gt;&gt; <i>Neoconocephalus</i> 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) &gt;&gt; <i>Bucrates</i>; holotype illustrated [syn.] <i>Conocephalus laticeps</i> = 1891 Redtenbacher, Monografie der Conocephaliden 1891: 385, 421 &gt;&gt; <i>Conocephalus</i>; type locality: South America: Colombia: Santa fe de Bogota; type depository: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria - lectotype female, here designated. 1898 Saussure and Pictet, Biol. Centr. Amer. Orth. 1: 389, 394 1906 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. 2: 248 &gt;&gt; <i>Conocephaloides</i> 1907 Karny, Abh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 4(3): 47 &gt;&gt; <i>Conocephalus (Homorocoryphus)</i> 1912 Karny, in Wytsman, Gen. Ins. 139: 37 &gt;&gt; <i>Homorocoryphus</i> 1997 Otte, Orth. Spec. File 7: 60 &gt;&gt; <i>Neoconocephalus</i> 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) &gt;&gt;syn. of <i>C. clausus</i>; lectotype illustrated <i>Diagnostic description.—</i> General characteristics as described above. Both sexes always macropterous, with tegmina well surpassing hind femora (Fig. 14 A). Stridulatory file of male 2.8 mm long, with 136 teeth, maximum width of file 0.26 mm (Figs. 46 C-D); teeth of file much thinner and spaced more densely in proximal fourth of file (110 teeth/mm) than thicker and less densely spaced teeth of distal end (23 teeth/mm). Mirror of stridulatory apparatus almost circular. Fastigium of vertex about twice as wide as scapus, continuous with fastigium of frons (Figs. 14 B-C). Ovipositor approximately as long as hind femur (ratio ovipositor/hind femur 0.92-1.01), straight (Fig. 14 A). <i>Coloration</i>.— Body coloration grass green or olive green, rarely brown; dorsum of pronotum and tegmina with darker, wide, longitudinal stripe; tegmina never speckled. <i>Measurements</i>.— Table 9. <i>Bioacoustics.—</i> Song unknown. <i>Taxonomic remarks.—</i> A comparison of the type specimens of <i>Conocephalus clausus</i> Scudder and <i>Conocephalus laticeps</i> Redtenbacher clearly indicates their conspecific status. Therefore, Naskrecki and Otte (1999) regard <i>C. laticeps</i> as a junior synonym of <i>C. clausus.</i> <i>Distribution.— B. clausus</i> has been recorded from Veracruz, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Colombia. In Costa Rica it seems to be restricted to the Pacific region of the country (Map 9). <i>Material examined.—</i> <b>COSTA RICA: Alajuela Prov.</b>, Caño Negro, R.N.V. S Caño Negro, elev. 20 m, 12 October 1993 (coll. K. Flores) - 1 female (INBio); Puesto Playuelas, Caño Negro, R.N.V.S. Caño Negro, elev. 20 m, 2 September 1993 (coll. K. Martínez) - 1 female (INBio); <b>Guanacaste Prov.</b>, 3 k NO de Nacaome, P.N. Barra Honda, elev. 100 m, 5 October 1992 (coll. M. Reyes) - 1 male (INBio); same locality, elev. 100 m, 15 October 1993 (coll. M. Reyes) - 5 females (INBio); same locality, elev. 100 m, 15 November 1993 (coll. M. Reyes) - 4 males, 3 females (INBio); 5 mi N Cañas, PanAm Highway, 15 October 1969 (coll. E. Frankie) - 1 female (ANIC); Finca Jenny, 31 km N Liberia, elev. 300 m, 15 September 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 3 females (INBio); same locality, elev. 300 m, 15 October 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 female (INBio); same locality, elev. 300 m, 12 September 1992 (coll. F. Araya) - 1 female (INBio); Santa Rosa N. P., Playa Naranjo, 15 September 1990 (coll. E. Alcazar) - 1 female (INBio); Vicinity Estac. Murciélago, 8 km SW Cuajiniquil, elev. 100 m, 15 June 1989 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 male (INBio); <b>COLOMBIA</b>: Santa Fe de Bogota, (coll. Staudinger) - 1 female (lectotype of <i>Conocephalus laticeps</i> Redtenbacher) (NHMW); <b>MEXICO:</b> Jalisco – 1 female (holotype) (ANSP); Veracruz, Córdoba, 26 March 1953 (coll. D.H. Janzen) - 1 male (EMEC); San Andrés, Tuxtla, 8 July 1961 (coll. D.H. Janzen) - 1 female (EMEC); Tlacotalpán, 23 - 31 July 1961 (coll. D.H. Janzen) - 2 females (EMEC); Surinam: (coll. Fruhstorfer) - 1 male, 1 female (NHMW).
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 pages 66-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270035
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