Acantheremus colwelli Naskrecki 1997
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Acantheremus
Acantheremus colwelli

description: <i>Acantheremus colwelli</i> Naskrecki, 1997 Common name: Colwell’s horned katydid Figs. 10 A-G, 36C, 43D-E, 54D-E, Map 4 1997 Naskrecki Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 123(3): 152; type locality: Costa Rica: Guanacaste Prov., Estación Pitilla, 9 km S Santa Cecilia, elev. 700 m; type depository: Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, San José, Costa Rica – holotype male 1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) &gt;&gt; holotype illustrated <i>Diagnostic description.—</i> Body small, with wings in both sexes slightly surpassing apices of hind femora (Figs. 10 A, 36C). Fastigium of vertex about 2.5-3 times as long as eye diameter; triangular when viewed in front; apex bifurcated (Figs. 10 B-C). Pronotum granulate; both anterior and posterior margins straight; lateral lobe of pronotum 1.8 times longer than high. Male stridulatory apparatus well developed; stridulatory file straight, 1.15 mm long, 0.17 mm wide, with 358 very closely spaced, lamelliform teeth (Figs. 43 D-E); transparent area between M+CuA and mirror in shape of equilateral triangle, mirror about as long as high. Caudal margin of male 10th tergite weakly emarginated. Male cercus almost straight when seen from above, its apex strongly bent downward, ending in sharp spine; inner, ventral part of cercus with short spine (Figs. 10 E-F). Female cercus simple, elongately conical. Male subgenital plate about 1.3 times as long as wide, distinctly narrowed toward apex, apex with narrow, almost parallel sided incision, reaching past 1/3 of length of plate; styli short, about 1.8 times as long as wide (Fig. 10 G). Female subgenital plate about 1.5 times as wide as long, apical part of plate narrowed and shallowly incised (Fig. 10 D). Ovipositor shorter than hind femur, ratio tegmen/ hind femur 0.9, distinctly upcurved in its basal part (Fig. 10 A). <i>Coloration</i>.— General coloration green (Fig. 36 C) (yellow in old museum specimens). Lateral carinae on the head, knees, and cubital veins of tegmina yellow with red edges; femoral spines often red; proximal end of middle tibia with dark brown, longitudinal spot; apex of ovipositor dark brown. <i>Measurements</i> (mm). <i>—</i> Body (excl. tegmina): male 26, female 26-30; body (incl. tegmina): male 30, female 36- 40; pronotum: male 7, female 7.5-8; tegmen: male 19, female 25-28; hind femur: male 12, female 14.5-16, ovipositor 13-14. <i>Bioacoustics.—</i> The call of <i>A. colwelli</i> consists of irregular series of short, buzzing trains, lasting 0.50- 1.28 s, separated by 233-262 ms long pauses (at 25°C). Each train consists of 34-89 individual wingstrokes (Figs. 54 D-E). The call is low Q, without a clearly defined energy peak. It is likely, however, that most energy is allocated in ultrasonic frequencies, which I was unable to record due to the technical constraints of the recording equipment. <i>Distribution.— C. colwelli</i> is so far known only from a handful of localities in northern and central Costa Rica (Map 4). <i>Material examined.—</i> <b>COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Prov.</b>, Estación Pitilla, 9 km S Santa Cecilia, elev. 700 m, 15 September 1989 (coll. C. Moraga and P. Rios)—male (holotype) (INBio); 3 km SE R. Naranjo, 16-31 January 1993 (coll. F.D. Parker)—male (EMUS); <b>Heredia Prov.</b>, Braulio Carillo N. P., Estac. El Ceibo, elev. 400-600 m, 15 September 1995 (coll. R. Aguilar and M. Zumbado)—female (allotype) (INBio); Puerto Viejo, La Selva Biological Station, elev. 50 - 150 m, 10° 26' N, 84° 1' W, 15 August 1976 (coll. G.K. Morris)— female (ANSP); same locality, 4 Oct. 1993 (coll. ALAS)—nymph; same locality and collector, CES 350, ex <i>Dendropanax arboreus</i> 12 Nov. 1994 -nymph; same locality and collector, CC 400 m, ex <i>Pentaclethra macroloba 9 Oct. 1994</i> —nymph; same locality and collector, CC 50 m, 14 Oct. 1994 —nymph; same locality and collector, CCC 400 m, ex <i>Virola koschnyi</i> 20 Oct. 1994; same locality and collector, CEN 550 m, 15 Nov. 1994 —nymph; same locality and collector, 7 Jan 1994 —nymph; same locality and collector, Sura 1100 m, 3 Nov. 1994 —nymph; same locality, 10 May 1998, coll. K.M. Smith and P. Naskrecki – 1 male (INBio); <b>Cartago Prov.</b>, Turrialba, 6 March 1965 (coll. S.S. and W.D. Duckworth)—female (USNM); Turrialba, Agr. Sta., 10 February 1966 (coll. H.R. Roberts)—female (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 page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270035
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