Tropicophyllum colosseum Mendes & Rafael 2025, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Tropicophyllum
Tropicophyllum colosseum

description: Tropicophyllum colosseum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) comb. nov.
Figures 134–139
Microcentrum colosseum Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 341; Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891: 180; Saussure & Pictet, 1898: 362.
Orophus colosseus; Kirby 1906: 483; Bruner 1915: 333.
Rossophyllum colosseum; Grant Jr. 1958: 216; Nickle 1992: 145.
Tropycophyllum colosseum; Koçak & Kemal 2008: 5.
Anapolisia colossea; Chamorro-Rengifo et al., 2011: 26; Cadena-Castañeda 2014: 21; Cigliano et al., 2024.
Diagnosis. Vein MA with six main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 135). Tegmina with six narrow and well-defined hyaline bands, overlapping the branches of the M and CuA veins; hyaline bands with small circular patches lined up (Fig. 135). Mesobasisternum anteriorly straight; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally and posteriorly straight, forming a posterolateral blunt tip (Fig. 134E). Metabasisternum anteriorly straight with two small convex lateral protuberances; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight and posteriorly slightly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 134E).
Redescription. Male.
Thorax. Mesobasisternum triangular, anteriorly straight; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally and posteriorly straight, forming a posterolateral blunt tip (Fig. 134E). Metabasisternum triangular, anteriorly straight with two small convex lateral protuberances; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight and posteriorly slightly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 134E).
Wings. Vein MA with six main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 135). Tegmina with six narrow and well-defined hyaline bands, overlapping the branches of the M and CuA veins; hyaline bands with small circular patches lined up (Fig. 135). Left stridulatory file curved; apical teeth small (Fig. 136A). Total file length of 3.5 mm, greater vein width of 0.5 mm and a total of 52 teeth. Rigth stridulatory file curved; middle and basal teeth large and spaced (Fig. 136B). Total length file of 3.1 mm, widest vein of 0.2 mm and total of 59 teeth.
Legs. All femora ventrally with several small spines (Fig. 134H).
Abdomen. Cercus curved inwards, with the apex not expanded (Figs. 134I–K). Apex of cercus with curved convex projection and lateral spine, with a dark brown color (Fig. 134K). Stylus large and fusiform (Fig. 134I).
Internal male genitalia. Ejaculatory vesicles small and elliptic (Figs. 137A–D). Upper folds of ventral lobe small, asymmetrical and not connected (Figs. 137A–B). Titillator process subtrapeziodal (Figs. 137A–D). Lower folds of ventral lobe large, bilobed and posteriorly convex (Figs. 137A–B). Dorsal lobes anteriorly with median triangular projection, laterally and posteriorly convex (Figs. 137A–D). Dorsal folds elongated, corrugated and apically rounded (Figs. 137C–D).
Coloration. Based on photos of preserved specimen (Fig. 134). Body yellowish-brown. Eyes brown.
Female: Morphologically similar to the male, except by the following characteristics (Figs. 138A–C):
Wings. Unaltered anal veins for sound production (Fig. 138A–B).
Abdomen. Cercus conical, apex acuminate (Figs. 138C). Ovipositor curved; apical region of dorsal and ventral valve with little and small rectangular teeth (Fig. 138C).
Distribution. Panama: Bugaba and Panama; Colombia: Antioquia, Boyacá, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Meta, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima and Valle del Cauca (Fig. 139).
Material examined. Holotype ♀. COLOMBIA, Magdalena, Santa Marta, B. V. Wattenwyl leg. (NMW); Idem, Valle del Cauca, UHE do Alto Anchicaya, 02.ii. 1989, 300 m de altitude, 03°44’45”N – 61°43’39”W, R. W.H. Hutchings & R. S.G. Hutchings leg. (1♂ INPA).
Measurements (mm). ♂: TL: 27,5; TegL: 54,5; TegH: 20; WF: 3,8; PL: 7,3; PH: 7,2; FF: 6,5; FT: 8,7; MF: 9; MT: 10,3; HF: 20,6; HT: 22,6; Lplac: 2,9; LC: 3,4.
Species-group Tropicophyllum maculosum comb. nov.
Figures 140–146
Coments. Group formed by two species with wide distribution, occurring from Costa Rica and Ecuador (Figs. 141, 146). They are very characteristic katydis, with a very striking coloring, with numerous spots and punctuations (Figs. 140A, 142A), so much so that this characteristic gives the species a name Tropicophyllum maculosum comb. nov. In addition, they are also differentiated by enlarged tegmina (Figs. 140A, 143); vein MA with three main branches reaching wing margin (Figs. 140A, 143); tegmina with six asymmetric hyaline bands with wide and narrow regions, overlapping the branches of the M and CuA veins (Figs. 140A, 143); hyaline bands medially with asymmetric white spots with dark green circular spots and apically asymmetric black spots (Figs. 140A, 143); vein MP and last branch of CuA vein forming a pentagonal cell (Figs. 140A, 143); all femora with long triangular ventral spines (Figs. 140A, 142F–H).
description: Published as part of Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello & Rafael, José Albertino, 2025, Review of Anapolisia Piza, 1980 and Tropicophyllum Koçak & Kemal, 2008 stat. rev. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Microcentrini), pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5564 (1) on pages 118-123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5564.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14612164