Glaphyrosoma karnyi Cadena-Castañeda & Gorochov, 2016

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J. & Monzón-Sierra, José, 2017, Studies in Guatemalan Ensifera: New Glaphyrosoma species (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) and additional data for other described species, Zootaxa 4242 (3), pp. 548-564 : 557-562

Glaphyrosoma karnyi Cadena-Castañeda & Gorochov, 2016

( Figs. 42–43 )

New material. One female labeled “ Guatemala, Baja Verapáz, Purulhá , Hotel Posada Montaña del Quetzal. 1646 m . 22 May 2016. Longitude: 15.195844. Latitude: -90.207667. J. Monzón ”; one male and two females labeled “ Baja Verapáz, Purulhá, Hotel Ranchitos del Quetzal . 1656 m. 4 May 2016. Latitude: 15.215747, Longitude: - 90.219087. J. Monzón”.

Comments. This species is geographically and altitudinally widely distributed in Guatemala with records from the departments of Alta Verapáz, Baja Verapáz, Suchitepéquez, Escuintla, Zacapa and Guatemala between 1000 and 2100 m. It is very similar to G. dentatum having similar color and habitus but with different hooks, paraproctum and subgenital plate in the male genitalia. Females of the two species are very similar and difficult to separate from one another with the ovipositor barely longer and with distinctly less denticles on dorsal edge of distal portion; subgenital plate wider than long and with short spine in G. karnyi ( Gorochov & Cadena-Castañeda, 2016) .

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FIGURES 42 – 43. Glaphyrosoma karnyi Cadena-Castañeda & Gorochov, 2016 in live condition, male and female from “ Ranchitos del Quetzal ”.