Aclodes Hebard, 1928

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Quintana-Arias, Ronald Fernando, Rodríguez, Diana Marcela Tru- Jillo, Sarmiento, Juan Pablo Prias & Castellanos-Morales, Cesar A., 2022, Studies on Neotropical crickets: Aclodes paz n. sp. a new phalangopsid cricket (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae) from the Santander caves, Colombia, Zootaxa 5141 (6), pp. 568-580 : 570-571

Genus Aclodes Hebard, 1928

Comments. This genus is very speciose, and currently includes 35 species, with a wide distribution from Costa Rica to Peru and northern South America, with a presence on a couple of islands near Venezuela ( Cigliano et al. 2022). It differs from the morphologically similar genus Paraclodes , in that the males have the tegmina projecting from the middle of the abdomen onwards and with strong parallel longitudinal veins. The females are distinguished by their tegmina, often reaching the first abdominal tergite posterior margin (Desutter-Grandcolas 1992), except Aclodes cryptos ( Nischk & Otte 2000) , with the tegmina reaching the middle of the abdomen.

Uvaroviella , is a Caribbean genus with 17 species that need to be re-studied. Possibly, the three continental species still included in Uvaroviella , which are only known from their females, should be included in the future in Aclodes , after finding the respective males that allow their generic affiliation to be identified.

For Colombia, Hebard (1928) mentions the presence of Aclodes maculatum (Caudell 1918) , described initially from Peru but with notable morphological differences. Hebard, at that time, did not study the internal genitalia; it was not a common practice of the time for the descriptions of Orthoptera . Perhaps with the study of the male genitalia it will be possible to resolve this problem, with the tegmina moderately developed, as occurs in many recently described species.

Recently, Cadena-Castañeda et al. (2016) recorded the presence of Aclodes nebulosa ( Gorochov, 2007) (then known as Uvaroviella (Holacla) nebulosa Gorochov, 2007 ), in the Rio Ñambi Nature Reserve, south of the department of Nariño. This is the only species with a reliable and confirmed record for Colombia. Now the second species of Aclodes for the country is described, coming from the caves of the Andes in northern Colombia.