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

description: <i>Caulopsis cuspidata</i> (Scudder, 1878) Figs. 18 B, 36B, 48F-G, Map 11 1878 Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 88 &gt;&gt; <i>Conocephalus cuspidatus;</i> type locality: Cuba; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia - holotype female 1906 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. 2: 240 &gt;&gt; <i>Caulopsis</i> 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) &gt;&gt; holotype illustrated [syn.] = <i>prora</i> 1879 Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: &gt;&gt; <i>Conocephalus</i>; type locality: Central America: Nicaragua: San Geronismo Palvon; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia - holotype female 1906 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. 2: 240 &gt;&gt; <i>Caulopsis</i> 1925 Hebard, M., Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 51: 300 &gt;&gt;synonym of <i>Caulopsis cuspidata</i> 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) &gt;&gt; holotype illustrated <i>Diagnostic description.—</i> General characteristics as described above. Stridulatory file of male 1.75 mm long, with 110 teeth, maximum width of file 79 μm; proximal end of file strongly curved, with teeth considerably smaller than on the remainder of file (Figs. 48 F-G). Mirror of stridulatory apparatus approximately oval, somewhat longer than wide. Fastigium of vertex usually at least 3 times as long as eye diameter, somewhat dilated midlength when seen from above, and blunt apically. Ovipositor at most as long as hind femur, sometimes shorter (ratio ovipositor/hind femur 0.92-1.04), distinctly downcurved (Fig. 18 B). <i>Measurements</i>.— Table 13. <i>Distribution.—</i> This species, originally described from Cuba, has been recorded also from Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Reports of this species from South America (Surinam, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia) (Redtenbacher 1891, Karny 1907) belong, according to Hebard (1925), to a closely related, but distinct species. In Costa Rica, <i>C. cuspidata</i> seems to be restricted in its distribution to the Pacific part of the country (Map 11). <i>Material examined.—</i> <b>COSTA RICA: Alajuela Prov.</b>, Caño Negro, R.N.V. S Caño Negro, elev. 20 m, 8 - 24 August 1992 (coll. K. Flores) - 1 female (INBio); Playuelas, Caño Negro, R.N.V. S Caño Negro, elev. 20 m, 10 - 31 October 1992 (coll. K. Martínez) - 1 male (INBio); same locality, elev. 20 m, 31 December 1992 (coll. K. Martínez) - 1 male, 1 female (INBio); <b>Guanacaste Prov.</b>, 11 km S. Cañas Taboga, elev. 12 m, 10° 19' N, 85° 9' W, 10 March 1969 (coll. D.C. Rentz) - 1 female (ANIC); same locality, 10° 19' N, 85° 9' W, 19 July 1973 (coll. D.C. Rentz and K.R. Brodey) - 1 male (ANIC); 3 k NO de Nacaome, P.N. Barra Honda, elev. 100 m, 13 - 30 November 1992 (coll. M. Reyes) - 1 male, 1 female (INBio); same locality, elev. 100 m, 15 October 1993 (coll. M. Reyes) - 1 female (INBio); Finca Jenny, 31 km N Liberia, elev. 300 m, 15 September 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 male, 1 female (INBio); same locality, elev. 300 m, 15 October 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 male (INBio); same locality, elev. 300 m, 15 November 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 female (INBio); Playas del Coco, 22 March 1965 (coll. J.B. Karren) - 1 male (ANSP); Santa Rosa N. P., 27 July 1979 (coll. D.H. Janzen) - 1 male (USNM); Santa Rosa N. P., Playa Naranjo, 26 January 1994 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 1 female (PN collection); <b>Puntarenas Prov.</b>, Est Esquinas, Península de Osa, elev. 0 m, 15 January 1993 (coll. F. Quesada) - 1 male (INBio); Península de Osa, Estac. Esquinas, 15 January 1993 (coll. M. Segura) - 1 female (INBio); Rancho Quemado, Península de Osa, elev. 200 m, 12 - 24 May 1993 (coll. A. Gutiérrez) - 1 male (INBio); <b>CUBA:</b> 1 female (holotype) (ANSP).
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 76-78, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270035
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