Orophus conspersus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Gutiérrez, Yeisson & Bacca, Tito, 2016, New and little known Orthoptera (Ensifera and Caelifera) from the Ñambí River Natural Reserve, Nariño, Colombia, Zootaxa 4162 (2), pp. 201-224 : 208

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BD3490A8-52D3-4CAD-91AC-E69D4BF5CBF5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6083767

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/825C87A8-FFE6-FFDD-FF58-CEE9FC41F877

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Plazi

scientific name

Orophus conspersus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)
status

 

Orophus conspersus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)

Comments. Distributed from Guatemala to Colombia ( Rentz 1983, Cadena-Castañeda 2014, Eades et al. 2016). Previously recorded in Colombia from Chocó and Valle del Cauca departments, and is here recorded for the first time for Nariño . Former records of this species in Santander department ( Chamorro-Rengifo et al. 2011) correspond to the recently described species O. andinus Cadena-Castañeda, 2014 .

This species, as in the others belonging to the group tesellatus, presents several chromatic variations occurring in the same geographical area ( Cadena-Castañeda 2014).

Specimens examined. 1 male and 1 female ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 13 – 16 ) (PSO-CZ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phaneropteridae

SubFamily

Phaneropterinae

Genus

Orophus

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