Copiphora cochleata Redtenbacher 1891
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Copiphora
Copiphora cochleata

description: <i>Copiphora cochleata</i> Redtenbacher, 1891 Common name: Spoon-horn Figs. 6 A-E, 43A, Map 5 1891 Redtenbacher, Monogr. Conoceph.: 341; type locality: Panama, Chiriquí; type depository: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna – lectotype male. 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) &gt;&gt; lectotype illustrated <i>Diagnostic description.—</i> Body large, with wings in both sexes extending well beyond apex of abdomen (Fig. 6 A). Fastigium of vertex forming large horn, with conspicuous, round dilatation below apex, apex sharply pointed; fastigium about 5 times as long as eye diameter; dorsal part of fastigium granulose (Fig. 6 B-C). Face convex; genal carinae of head well developed, granulose. Pronotum smooth, shiny; metazona slightly raised; anterior dorsal margin straight, posterior one convex; lateral lobe of pronotum 1.8 times longer than high. Male stridulatory file nearly straight, 2.1 mm long, 156 μm wide, with 206 closely spaced, wide, lamelliform teeth (Fig. 43 A); mirror approximately rectangular but with sides somewhat convex; small, parallel vein next to AA1 present. Ventral spines of femora long, conical, usually contrastingly white; all genicular lobes armed with long, sharp spines. Male cercus thick, blunt, and somewhat incurved, slightly thicker at apex than at base; ventral, subapical spine of cercus short and thick (Figs. 6 D-E). Female cercus simple, elongately conical, somewhat curved. Male subgenital plate only weakly narrowed toward apex, apex with shallow incision; styli short, about twice as long as wide (Fig. 6 E). Female subgenital plate approximately triangular, with small apical incision. Ovipositor long, straight, less than twice as long as hind femur (ratio ovipositor/hind femur 1.7) (Fig. 6 A). <i>Coloration</i>.— General coloration green. Fastigium of vertex yellow, its dilated apical portion reddish brown; face green, clypeus, labrum and outer parts of mandibles yellow; inner parts of mandibles black. Pronotum green, with a contrasting red, hourglass-shaped pattern, continuous with red stripe on the head and fastigium of vertex. Tegmina green, densely mottled with brown dots; posterior margin of tegmina purple-red, resulting in conspicuous dorsal stripe when wings are folded; male stridulatory file usually bright white. Legs green, with white femoral spines. Abdomen green. <i>Measurements</i>.— Table 4. <i>Bioacoustics.—</i> Call unknown. <i>Distribution.—</i> In Costa Rica <i>C. cochleata</i> is known only from the Osa Peninsula (Map 5). It also occurs in Panama (Chiriquí). Another, undescribed species of <i>Copiphora</i> with a similar, spoon-shaped fastigium of vertex occurs in Coclé Province, Panama. <i>Material examined.—</i> <b>COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Prov.,</b> Península de Osa, 2.5 mi SW Rincón, 08°42’N, 83°29’W, March 1973 (coll. Chadab) – 1 male; Península de Osa, Estac. Esquinas, elev. 200 m, 15 September 1993 (coll. M. Segura) - 1 female (INBio); <b>PANAMA:</b> Chiriquí, (coll. Staudinger) - 1 female (allolectotype) (NHMW); same locality, 1 - 30 April 1878 - 1 male (lectotype) (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 page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270035
description: {"references": ["Redtenbacher, J. 1891. Monographie der Conocephaliden, Verh. k. k. zool. - botan. Ges. Wien, 41, 315 - 562."]}