Tettigidea lateralis (Say, 1824)

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Acrydium laterale Say, 1824: plate V (original description of the species, no holotype designated).

Tettigidea lateralis – Scudder 1862: 477 (transferred to the present genus). — Rehn 1904: 669 ( T. lateralis designated as the type species of the genus). — Yin et al. 1996: 923 (catalogued). — Otte 1997: 7 (catalogued). — Silva et al. 2021: 47 (overview of the genus with numerous nomenclatural acts, key to the species).

Tetrix polymorpha Burmeister, 1838: 397 .

Tetrix parvipennis Harris, 1841: 152 .

Tettigidea nicaraguae Bruner, 1895: 62 .

Tettigidea parvipennis pennata Morse, 1895: 109 .

Tettigidea jalapa Hancock, 1900b: 25 .

Tettigidea lateralis var. medialis Hancock, 1902: 140 .

Tettigidea nicaraguae brevis Hancock, 1904: 158 .

Tettigidea annulipes Bruner, 1910: 127 .

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Brazil • 1 ♀ holotype; Mato Grosso, Chapada dos Guimarães; ANSP .

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Costa Rica • 1 ♂; 1920; Paul Serre leg.; MNHN-EO-CAELIF10728 • 1 ♀; 1920; Paul Serre leg.; MNHN-EO-CAELIF10729 • 1 ♀; 1920; Paul Serre leg.; MNHNEO-CAELIF10730.

Guatemala • 1 ♀; Zacapa, Rte de l’Atlantique km126, S. Lorenzo; 1700 m a.s.l.; 28.XI.1986., 30.XI.1986; C.Amedegnato & S. Poulain leg.; MNHN-EO-CAELIF10765 • 1 ♂; Zacapa, Rte de l’Atlantique km126, S. Lorenzo; 1700 m a.s.l.; 28.XI.1986., 30.XI.1986; C.Amedegnato & S. Poulain leg.; MNHN-EO-CAE-LIF10766 • 1 ♂; Zacapa, Rte de l’Atlantique km126, S. Lorenzo; 1700 m a.s.l.; 28.XI.1986., 30.XI.1986; C.Amedegnato & S. Poulain leg.; MNHN-EO-CAELIF10767 .

ADDITIONAL DATA. — See Appendix 1.

DISTRIBUTION. — Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá. See Figure 1.

REMARK

Although only the nominal subspecies has been reported from Central America, we do not identify our records to the level of subspecies because the genus should be reexamined with clear descriptions of variability.