Licodia pallipes Walker, 1869

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., García, Alexander García, Nos, Maria Del Pilar Castella-, Sarmiento, Juan Pablo Prias & Tavares, Gustavo Costa, 2022, Studies on chevron crickets: Contribution to the knowledge of Lutosinae / ini taxa (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae), Zootaxa 5178 (4), pp. 347-379 : 367-368

Licodia pallipes Walker, 1869

( Figs. 11–12 )

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Lutosa obliqua Walker, 1869 syn. rev.

Lutosa azteca ( Saussure & Pictet, 1897) syn. rev.

Comments. Karny (1937) synonymized Lutosa obliqua Walker, 1869 and Glaphyrosoma aztecum Saussure & Pictet, 1897 under Licodia pallipes Walker, 1869 ( Fig. 11 ). The type specimen of L. obliqua does not have locality information, apparently Karny was confused in 1937 and mentioned that the species came from Mexico, which is incorrect. When reviewing the type of L. obliqua , it evidently coincides with an adult female of L. pallipes , corroborating the synonymy proposed by Karny (1937) ( Fig. 12 ).

Otte (2000) perhaps overlooked some taxonomic decisions of Karny and mentioned G. azteca again, but wrongly included it in Lutosa . The type locality of G. azteca is Teapa in Mexico, and the type specimen is a female. The drawing of this specimen coincides with the subadult female of L. pallipes ( Fig. 11D ), both apparently deposited at BMHN London. Saussure & Pictet (1897) possibly got confused and described the type specimen of L. pallipes as G. aztecum . However, there is a male in BMHN with the label data, as mentioned by Saussure & Pictet, in the original description of G. aztecum , and this male coincides in the morphological characteristics of Glaphyrosoma bulbosum Gorochov & Cadena-Castañeda, 2016 . With the aforementioned, the confusion of the authors is evident, who included the data of this male, which is certainly a Glaphyrosoma , but ended up describing the type specimen of L. pallipes , collected in Haiti. Based on what was investigated here, there is no female type specimen that represents G. aztecum , and the male “ holotype ” is not valid because it was never formally described.

Figures

FIGURE 11. Licodia pallipes female. A–B. Habitus in lateral and dorsal views. C. Face. D. Draw from Glaphyrosoma aztecum Saussure & Pictet, 1897, from its original description. (Photos: B. Price and J. Marshall).

FIGURE 12. Licodia pallipes (=Lutosa obliqua n. syn.) female. A–B. Habitus in lateral and dorsal views. C. Face. D–E. Terminalia in dorsal and ventral views. (Photos: B. Price and J. Marshall).