Cota undulata ( Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda, 2015 ), Silva & Cadena-Castañeda & Pereira & Domenico & Sperber, 2019

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, Domenico, Fernando Campos De & Sperber, Carlos Frankl, 2019, New tribes, overview and checklist of Neotropical Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae), Insecta Mundi 723 (723), pp. 1-38 : 32

Cota undulata ( Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda, 2015) , n. comb.

Fig. 21

Diagnosis. Regarding the species of this group, we noted that Metrodora undulata Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda, 2015 , from Colombia, is not a member of Metrodora Bolívar, 1887 , but in fact represents a species of Cota . The holotype of M. undulata has head and pronotal morphology corresponding to members of Cota . Thus, the new combination Cota undulata ( Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda, 2015) n. comb. should be used when referring to this species. It is morphologically very close to C. saxosa and can be distinguished from C. saxosa by a more rounded horn-like pronotum, with lateral lobes directed sidewards and subquadrate ( Fig. 21 ).

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Figure 21. Cota undulata (Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona-Granda, 2015) n. comb., holotype male, left lateral view. Photo by Oscar J. Cadena-Castañeda (CAUD).