Piza, 1976 : 370
Uchuca macroptera
Chamorro-Rengifo et al. , 2011 : 8
Chamorro-Rengifo & Braun, 2010 : 44
Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade, 2014 : 166
Uchuca ferreirai
Uchuca macroptera
U. ferreirai
Clarification of the katydid genus Uchuca Giglio-tos, 1898 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): A new species in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest
Tavares, Gustavo Costa
Sovano, Rafael Segtowick Da Silva
Gutjahr, Ana Lúcia Nunes
Zootaxa
2016
4139
4
542
550
Chamorro-Rengifo & Braun, 2010 : 44
8PL6F
Piza, 1976
Piza
1976
[151,507,1295,1322]
Insecta
Tettigoniidae
Uchuca
Animalia
Orthoptera
5
547
Arthropoda
species
ferreirai
Ailtomia ferreirai Piza, 1976: 370, Typelocality: Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil. Type: Male, ESALQ( Escola Superior de Agricultura" Luiz de Queiroz") Uchuca macropteraMontealegre-Z & Morris, 2003 syn. nov.: 510; 513; 529 ( Fig. 5C, H, M, R, W; Fig. 8, Table 7). Type locality: Route del Paujil Orito, Departamento del Putumayo, Colombia, Type: Male, MNHN (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle); Chamorro-Rengifo et al., 2011: 8. Uchuca ferreirai Chamorro-Rengifo & Braun, 2010: 44, 54 ( Table 1); Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade, 2014: 166; 167; 168; 170; 175; 181; 198 (Fig. 12, 13, 73, 98) Uchuca ferreiraiand Uchuca macropteraare the only two long-winged species known in the genus in which tegmina surpasses the abdomen’s apex. Both species are morphologically similar. Chamorro-Rengifo & Braun (2010)analyzed the typematerial of U. ferreiraiand concluded that the male cerci of both species were significantly different. However, these differences were not clarified in the work.
We also analyzed the typespecimens of Piza (1976)and compared to the diagnostic characters of the original description of U. macroptera, present in Montealegre-Z & Morris (2003), and no differences were found on the male cerci of either species. No differences were found on tergite X and the subgenital plate. Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade (2014)also published images of phallus of what would become U. ferreirai.The phallus presented in that work was different from the one present by Montealegre-Z & Morris (2003), especially in the position and direction of the titillatory processes. However, after dissecting the phalli of some macropterous specimens, in an attempt to precisely clarify the correct identity of the specimens we had, we realize that the position and direction of the titillator sclerites changed accordingly with the eversion of the phallus. In other words, if the phallus is everted, it matches with the phallus presented in Fig. 5W by Montealegre-Z & Morris (2003)to U. macropetra( Fig. 4A); on the other hand, if the structure is inverted, it matches with the phallus presented in Fig. 13 by Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade (2014)to U. ferreirai( Fig. 4B). So, we concluded that these purported species are actually the same. In the typedescription of this species, Piza (1976)wrongly said that the city Humaitá belonged to RondôniaState, but in fact it belongs to AmazonasState. Here we also amplify the known occurrence of this species to ParáState (see Distribution of Uchuca).
Distribution. BRAZIL, Amazonas, Pará(new record); COLOMBIA, Putumayo, Amazonas; PERU, Loreto; Madre de Deus; FRENCH GUIANA, Cayenne; ECUADOR, Napo( Fig. 5).
Material Examined. 1 female: BRAZIL, Amazonas, Barcelos, Rio Acará, Comunidade Bacuquara, 00°09'15.5'0'N 63°10'35.20''W, 15.VI.2010, P. Dias, J.A. Rafael& R. Machado; 1 female: Boca do Rio Curudum, 00°05'50.20''N 63°17'22.30''W, 15–19.VI.2010, R. Machado, J.A. Rafael, R. Cacichioli, D. Takiya& P. Dias; 1 male: Manaus, INPA, 22.III.1976, 5 femaleand 2 male: Reserva Ducke, 02°55'49''S 58°58'31''W, 20.X– 30.XI.2010, V.S.O. Linard; 1 female: 25.III.2011, W. L. Porto; 1 female: 14–18.IV.2010, C. C. Gonçalves; 2 female: 20.II.2011, Martins, L.M. & Mendes, D.M.M.; 1 female:C. Univ. ICB., 03–16.VI.1988, M. C. Castilho, E. Binda & Q. L. Fermentado; 1 male:UFAM, 03°06'59.00''S 59°58'33.74''W, 24.IV.2012, L. P. Borges; 1 female: Novo Aripuanã, Reserva Soka Gakkay, 03.V.1999, F. Gouveia; 1 female: Rio Nhamundá, Cuipiranga, 01°53'58.00''S 57°02'59.00''W; 1 male: Itacoatiara, Vila de Lindoá, 03°02'60.00"S 58°26'00.00"W, 22–24.V.2010, D. M. M. Mendes& R. F. Alves. Pará, Altamira, Castelo dos Sonhos, 03°19'35.00''S 55°12'45.54''W, 17.XI.2005, A.L. Nunes, MPEG ORT16017581; 1 male: Anapu, IlhaBela Vista, 03°24’13.40''S 51°44'06.90''W, 23.I.2008. A. L. Nunes& C. E. Braga, MPEG ORT16017590; 1 male: Barcarena, Reserva Samauma, 01°29'35.61''S 48°42'28.65''W, 18–20.XI.2001, J. Dias, MPEG ORT16017581; 1 female: Belém, Parque Ecológico do Guamá, 01º24’50.60’’S 48º17’38.10’’W, 15.XII.2005, A. L. Nunes, C. E. Braga& W. A. Santos, MPEG ORT16017592; 1 male: Parque Ambiental, 01°25’18.48’’S 48°26’38.18’’W, 31.X.2005, A. L. Nunes, C. E. Braga& W. A. Santos, MPEG ORT16017593; 1 male: Melgaço, FLONA Caxiuanã, B-0-1000, 01º58'09.35''S 51º37'11.28''W, 10.XII. 2009, C. E. Braga, MPEG ORT 16011250; 1 male and 2 females:B-2000-3000, 01º58'09.33''S 51º38'16.02''W, 18.X.2008, N. A. Araújo, MPEG ORT 16009749; MPEG ORT 16009748; 13.II.2009, A. V. Silva, MPEG ORT 16010288; 1 male:B-4000-5000, 01º58'09.30''S 51º39'20.75''W, 16.V.2009, M. R. Silva, MPEG ORT 16010828; 1 female:I-4000-5000, 02º00'03.32''S 51º37'59.87''W, 21.VIII.2009, C. E. Braga, MPEG ORT 16010958; 1 female: Novo Progresso, Aeroporto, 07º08'08.94''S 55º24'49.08''W, 24.XI.2005, A.L.Nunes, MPEG ORT16017591; 1 ninphy: Santa Bárbara, Fazenda Morelândia, 01°13’26.36’’S 48º17’41.36’’ W, 11.XI.1983, J. Tadai, MPEG ORT16017471; 2 female: 05.XI.2005, A. L. Nunes, C. E. Braga & W. A. Santos, MPEG ORT 16017588; MPEG ORT 16017589; 1 male: 10.XII.2005, A. L. Nunes, C. E. Braga & W. A. Santos, MPEG ORT 16017594; 1 female: 23.VIII.2008, G. C. Tavares, MPEG ORT 1 6017595; 1 male: São João de Pirabas, 00°46'29.00''S 47°10'38.00''W, 18.XII.1992, J. Dias, MPEG ORT16017470; 1 male: Vitória do Xingu, IlhaGrande, 03º36'55.50''S 52º21'57.30''W, 10.VIII.2008, A. L. Nunes& C. E. Braga, MPEG ORT16014612;
1288040382
[151,981,1366,1388]
Brazil
Humaita
5
547
1
Amazonas
holotype
1288040387
ESALQ
Escola Superior de Agricultura & Luiz de Queiroz
Brazil
Male
5
547
1
Amazonas
holotype
1288040379
2010-06-15
P. Dias & J. A. Rafael & R. Machado
Brazil
Barcelos
Comunidade Bacuquara
-63.176445
Rio Acara
6
548
1
1
Amazonas
1288040369
2010-06-15
2010-06-19
2010-06-15
R. Machado & J. A. Rafael & R. Cacichioli & D. Takiya & P. Dias
Brazil
0.09727778
Rio Curudum
1
-63.289528
Boca do Rio Curudum
6
548
1
1
Amazonas
1288040371
1976-03-22
INPA
Brazil
Manaus
6
548
1
1
Amazonas
1288040380
2010-10-20
2010-11-30
2010-10-20
V. S. O. Linard
Brazil
-2.9302778
Reserva Ducke
21
-58.975277
6
548
7
5
2
Amazonas
1288040374
1999-05-03
F. Gouveia
Brazil
Reserva Soka Gakkay
Novo Aripuana
6
548
1
1
Amazonas
1288040370
Brazil
-1.8994445
Cuipiranga
1
-57.04972
Rio Nhamunda
6
548
1
1
Amazonas
1288040393
2005-11-17
2010-05-24
2005-11-17
MPEG, ORT
Vila de Lindoa & D. M. M. Mendes & Altamira & Castelo dos Sonhos & A. L. Nunes
Brazil
-3.3263888
Vila de Lindoa
1
-55.21265
Itacoatiara
6
548
ORT 16017581
1
1
Para
1288040391
2008-01-23
MPEG, ORT
A. L. Nunes & C. E. Braga
Iceland
-3.4037223
Anapu
1
-51.73525
6
548
ORT 16017590
1
1
1288040390
2001-11-18
2001-11-20
2001-11-18
MPEG, ORT
J. Dias
Iceland
-1.493225
Reserva Samauma
1
-48.70796
Barcarena
6
548
ORT 16017581
1
1
1288040381
2005-12-15
MPEG, ORT
A. L. Nunes & C. E. Braga & W. A. Santos
Iceland
-1.4140556
Parque Ecologico do Guama
1
-48.293915
Belem
6
548
ORT 16017592
1
1
1288040383
2005-10-31
MPEG, ORT
A. L. Nunes & C. E. Braga & W. A. Santos
Iceland
-1.4218
Parque Ambiental
1
-48.44394
6
548
ORT 16017593
1
1
1288040372
2009-12-10
FLONA, MPEG, ORT
C. E. Braga
Iceland
-1.9692639
Caxiuana
1
-51.619797
Melgaco
6
548
ORT 16011250
1
1
1288040395
2005-11-24
MPEG, ORT
A. L. Nunes
Iceland
-7.1358166
Aeroporto
1
-55.413635
Novo Progresso
6
548
ORT 16017591
1
1
1288040394
1983-11-11
MPEG, ORT
J. Tadai
Iceland
-1.2239889
Fazenda Morelandia
1
-48.294823
Santa Barbara
6
548
ORT 16017471
1
1288040398
1992-12-18
MPEG, ORT
Sao Joao de Pirabas & J. Dias
Iceland
-0.7747222
Sao Joao de Pirabas
1
-47.177223
6
548
ORT 16017470
1
1
1288040399
2008-08-10
MPEG, ORT
A. L. Nunes & C. E. Braga
Iceland
-3.6154165
Vitoria do Xingu
1
-52.365913
6
548
ORT 1
1
1