Plectronotus excavatus Grant, 1955

Kasalo, Niko, Naskrecki, Piotr, Rebrina, Fran & Skejo, Josip, 2023, Central American Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838 (Orthoptera): a preliminary catalogue, Zoosystema 45 (7), pp. 177-212 : 182

Plectronotus excavatus Grant, 1955

Plectronotus excavatus Grant, 1955a: 60 (original description, holotype, allotype, 14 paratypes, scapular area of the pronotum designated as an important characteristic and shown in fig. 1B, p. 59, photographs of the species in pl. 1, figs 2, 4). — Maes 1989: 51 (a note on distribution: Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia). — Silva et al. 2021: 20 (catalogued).

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Panamá • 1 ♀ holotype, 1 ♂ allotype; Chiriquí, Boquete ; 26.III.1923; F. M. Gaige leg.; UMMZ .

DISTRIBUTION. — Panamá. See Figure 1.

REMARKS No living specimens have been photographed in Central America since the description.

Maes (1989) reports that P. excavatus is present in South America ( Colombia) as well as in Central America.

Figures

FIG. 1. — Distribution maps of Lophotettix brevicristatus Hancock, 1909, Lophotettix zumbadoi Barranco, 2010, Cranotettix alpha Grant Jr., 1955, Paurotarsus insolitus extremus Grant, 1955, Plectronotus excavatus Grant Jr., 1955, Plectronotus scaber Morse, 1900, Batrachideinae gen. et sp., Scaria fasciata Hancock, 1907, Tettigidea lateralis (Say, 1824), Allotettix otumboides Günther, 1939,Chiriquia serrata Morse,1900,Crimisus costaricensis Günther,1939,Crimisus sp., Metrodora harroweri (Hebard, 1924), Metrodora panamae (Hebard, 1924),and Metrodora simplex (Hebard,1924).The maps are based on the maps by OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence, cartography licensed under the CC BY-SA licence.