Neoconocephalus affinis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)

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

Neoconocephalus affinis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)

Comments. Widely distributed in Florida (United States), Greater Antilles, southern México, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and French Guyana ( Eades et al., 2016). In Colombia has been previously recorded in Amazonas, Antioquia, Boyacá, Cauca, Caldas, Caquetá, Cesar, Choco, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima and Valle del Cauca (Chamorro Rengifo et al., 2011) and is here recorded for the first time for Nariño. As evidenced by records, N. affinis is the most common species of the genus Neoconocephalus and the family Tettigoniidae in Colombia .

Specimens examined. 1 male ( Fig. 11 ) and 1 female (PSO-CZ).

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 12. Romaleidae: Bactrophorinae, Megacheilacris bullifemur bullifemur (Descamps & Amédégnato), female (7). Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae, Allotettix peruvianus (Bolívar), female (8). Ripipterigidae: Ripipteriginae, Ripipteryx ecuadoriensis Günther, male (9). Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae, Artiotonus sp., male (10); Neoconocephalus affinis (Palisot de Beauvois), male (11); Panacanthus varius Walker, male (12). Scale bar 0.5 cm for 7, 8 and 9, and 1 cm for 10, 11 and 12.