Lophotettix zumbadoi Barranco, 2010

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, Domenico, Fernando Campos De & Sperber, Carlos Frankl, 2019, Review of Lophotettix, the sole member of the subfamily Lophotettiginae Hancock 1909 (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae), Zootaxa 4686 (3), pp. 346-360 : 356

Lophotettix zumbadoi Barranco, 2010

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Lophotettix zumbadoi Barranco, 2010 (22) (Museo de Insectos de la Universidad Central de Costa Rica) [general description], female holotype; Type locality: “Central America, Costa Rica, Reserva Biológica Alberto Manuel Brenes, San Ramón, Alajuela ”.

Additional information in description (Female Holotype, Fig. 6 ): Facial carina and conspicuous frontal costa bifurcation visible; infrascapular area narrow, femur robust and with small lappets throughout dorsal and external margins.

Comparative notes. The most recently described species L. zumbadoi shares with L. brevicristatus the rounded shape of pronotum and can be easily differentiated by the direction of pronotum which in L. zumbadoi has the median carina crest directed backwards and L. brevicristatus has the median carina crest directed forwards ( Fig. 7 ). L. alticristatus , L. hancocki and L. unicristatus have a crest directed forwards and can also be distinguished from L. zumbadoi and L. brevicristatus by the almost subquadrate shape of the pronotum crest ( Fig. 7 ).

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FIGURE 6. Lophotettix zumbadoi Barranco, 2010 right lateral view of holotype. Photo of type: Pablo Barranco.

FIGURE 7. Pictorial key to species of Lophotettix. Arrows in L. brevicristatus and L. zumbadoi indicate pronotum direction; in L. unicristatus the arrow points to the hook-like shape of the pronotum and in L. alticristatus and L. hancocki the arrow points to the shape of the anterior margin of the pronotum over the head.