Subria scutellaris Naskrecki and Morris, sp. n.
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Subria
Subria scutellaris
Sphyrometopa
Sphyrometopa femora

description: <i>Subria scutellaris</i> Naskrecki and Morris, sp. n. Common name: Lesser subria Figs. 33 C, 33E, 33G, 38E, 50G, 58E-F, Map 17 Type locality: Costa Rica: Puntarenas Prov., Valle de Coto Brus, Las Cruces, Wilson Botanical Gardens; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia – holotype male <i>Diagnostic description.—</i> General characteristics as described above. Tegmina surpassing apices of hind femora by only about 1/6 of their length. Male pronotum with metazona expanded, entirely covering stridulatory apparatus (Fig. 38 C, 38E). Stridulatory file of male weakly curved, 1.8 mm long, with 137 (n=1) wide and thin teeth, maximum width of file 102 μm (Fig. 50 G); teeth of file uniform in thickness, evenly spaced and smoothly narrowing towards proximal end. Male cercus weakly incurved, about twice as long as thick, with large apical spine (Fig. 38 E); apices of titillators expanded and flattened, with several large teeth (Fig. 33 G). Ovipositor distinctly curved upwards and widened midlength, slightly longer than half of hind femur (ratio ovipositor/hind femur 0.72-0.78). <i>Coloration</i>.— General coloration chestnut brown, with wide, dark band extending across the top of the head, pronotum, and posterior edges of tegmina; tegmina with irregularly distributed, small, diffused darker spots; outer pagina of hind femur with distinct reticulate pattern. No green form is known for this species. <i>Measurements</i>.— Table 25. <i>Bioacoustics.—</i> Males of <i>S. scutellaris</i> produce relatively high duty calls, consisting of paired chirps separated by about 1 second of silence (at 26°C) (Figs. 58 E-F). Each chirp in a pair is produced by 6-7 wing strokes, and lasts 176-181 ms. Chirps in the pair are separated by 514-654 ms of silence (based on 5 recordings of 2 males). Males of this species alternate their calls if they can hear each other. <i>Distribution — Subria scutellaris</i> is known only from southern portion of Puntarenas Province, near the bor- der with Panama (Map 17). All specimens were collected at elevations of 700-1300 m. <i>Etymology.—</i> The specific epithet reflects the somewhat enlarged, shield-like pronotum of the males of the new species. <i>Material examined</i> (holotype and paratypes). <i>—</i> <b>COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Prov.</b>, Finca Cafrosa, Estac. Las Mellizas, P.N. Amistad, elev. 1300 m, 15 April 1989 (coll. M. Ramirez and G. Mora) - 1 male (INBio); Valle de Coto Brus, Las Cruces, Wilson Botanical Gardens, 22 March 1994 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 2 males, 2 females (incl. holotype, allotype) (ANSP); same locality, elev. 700 - 1000 m, 1 - 6 December 1995 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 2 males, 1 female (PN collection).
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 122-123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270035