Phyllotettix (Phyllotettix) (compressus) compressus (Thunberg, 1815)

Acrydium compressum Thunberg, 1815: 162 (description); Bolívar 1887: 203 (listed as a synonym of Choriphyllum rhombeum). Taxonomic and nomenclatural history.

Hymenotes compressus Thunb.; Stål 1873: 153.154 (re-description of Thunberg’s specimen); Bolívar 1887: 203 (listed as a synonym of Choriphyllum rhombeum, synonymy not accepted here).

Acridium compressum Thunb.; Scudder 1901: 7 (listed in the catalogue);

Phyllotettix Compressa Thunb.; Kirby 1910: 6 (listed in the catalogue);

Phyllotettix compressus Thunberg; Silva et al. 2019: 4 6, 9, 3, 14, 35 (information on syntypes, included in the key, photographs of the type specimens).

Phyllotettix westwoodi Hancock; Kirby 1910: 5 (listed as a synonym of Phyllotettix compressa, synonymy here not accepted, see Phyllotettix rhombeus Taxonomic and nomenclatural history, Figs 5, 6).

Type locality.

Jamaica, without specified location (Thunberg 1815).

Type specimens.

Holotype ♂ of Acridium compressum . Jamaica • 1 ♂; UZIU. Holotype photographs are available on the OSF, http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1100598).

Other specimens.

Jamaica • 1 ♀; Blue Mountains; 18.054489°N, 76.600555°W; 14 May 2022; Damany Calder leg.; iNaturalist ID: 117405730. Four photographs are available at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117405730).

Jamaica • 1 ♀; MfN.

Distribution

(Fig. 2). Jamaican Bitten Jumping Leaf is endemic to Jamaica. Until recently, no specified localities were known, but now, after the iNaturalist observation of a living individual (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117405730), we know for sure that the species inhabits the Blue Mountains range NE of Kingston. Phyllotettix foliatus has been reported from the same mountain range (see below).

Diagnosis

(Figs 1, 3). Very similar to Phyllotettix foliatus, which is a member of the same species group. Separated by the narrow and sharp highest point of the pronotum (wide and oblique in P. foliatus) and after it, the posterior margin of the pronotum is strongly convex (almost straight in P. foliatus).

Measurements.

See Table 1.