Orophus conspersus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)

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

Orophus conspersus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)

Comments. Distributed from Guatemala to Colombia ( Rentz 1983, Cadena-Castañeda 2014, Eades et al. 2016). Previously recorded in Colombia from Chocó and Valle del Cauca departments, and is here recorded for the first time for Nariño . Former records of this species in Santander department ( Chamorro-Rengifo et al. 2011) correspond to the recently described species O. andinus Cadena-Castañeda, 2014 .

This species, as in the others belonging to the group tesellatus, presents several chromatic variations occurring in the same geographical area ( Cadena-Castañeda 2014).

Specimens examined. 1 male and 1 female ( Fig. 15 ) (PSO-CZ).

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 16. Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae, Anaulacomera poculigera Hebard, male (13); Caroliniella rosea Cadena- Castañeda, male (14 A) and female (14 B); Orophus conspersus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, female (15); Orophus tessellatus (Saussure), male (16). Scale bar 1 cm in all cases.