Cylindrotettix insularis insularis Bruner, 1906

Pocco, Martina E. & Cigliano, María Marta, 2020, The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana, Zoosystema 42 (7), pp. 105-114 : 108

Cylindrotettix insularis insularis Bruner, 1906

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TYPE LOCALITY. — Trinidad-Tobago.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — French Guiana • 2 ♀; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka : “ Savane Roche ”; 2°14’19.3”N, 54°26’04.9”W; 390 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Planète Revisitée o MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 ( APA 973 -1); MNHN • 1 ♀; “vers sommet en Cloche”; 2°14’05.6”N, 54°27’14.8”W; 370 m a.s.l. to 2°13’58.4”N, 54°27’52.6”W; 470 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Planète Revisitée – MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 ( APA 973 -1); MNHN • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; MLP .

DISTRIBUTION. — Known from Venezuela, Colombia, French Guiana and from the Caribbean Islands of Trinidad-Tobago.

REMARKS

Only females, based on the shape of fastigium, white lateral stripe, shape of ovipositor valves, highly probable C. insularis . However, to confirm the identification males are needed.

Figures

FIG. 1. — A, Schistocerca pallens (Thunberg, 1815); B, Silvitettix nigriceps (Descamps & Amédégnato, 1970); C, Stenopola boliviana (Rehn, 1913); D, S. dorsalis (Thunberg, 1827); E, S. rubrifrons rubrifrons Roberts & Carbonell, 1979; F, Cylindrotettix insularis insularis Bruner, 1906; G, Abracris flavolineata (De Geer, 1773); H, Psiloscirtus sp. Photos: Sylvain Hugel.