Anisophya brasilienesis, Braun, Holger, 2010

Braun, Holger, 2010, On the neotropical species described under the genus Isophya (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae), Zootaxa 2444, pp. 58-60 : 58

Anisophya brasilienesis comb. nov. (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)

Isophya brasiliensis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 61.

Studied specimen: female from Argentina, Córdoba, Cerro La Banderita – La Falda, collected by M. Pocco, 7 March 2010 (photographs available in OSF).

The tiny female is very similar to the female syntype in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Geneva (which has photographs in OSF), except for better conserved coloration, and perfectly matches Karabag’s diagnosis of Anisophya , as well as Brunner von Wattenwyl’s description of I. brasiliensis . In this description it is not entirely clear if the river “Jugueri grande” is actually a separate locality in Brazil, contrary to being situated in the also mentioned Argentine province Entre Ríos, which is the only specification on the label of the male syntype in Vienna (S. Randolf, pers. comm.). The locality of the female syntype, “Bahia blanca”, is probably Bahía Blanca in the province of Buenos Aires. Giglio- Tos (1894) mentioned also “Buenos Ayres” as locality, without a new collection record. In 1897 he reported the species from San Lorenzo, Provincia de Jujuy in Argentina. So it is uncertain if the species actually occurs in the eponymous country Brazil. Fortunately already in 1906 Kirby designated I. pyrenaea (= Barbitistes pyrenaea Serville, 1838 ) as type species of Isophya , and not I. brasiliensis , the first of 17 species included by Brunner von Wattenwyl in his new genus, as intended Rehn in 1907.