Pycnopalpa (Pycnopalpa) bicordata (Saint-Fargeau & Serville, 1825)

Fianco, Marcos, Szinwelski, Neucir & Faria, Luiz R. R., 2022, Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, Zootaxa 5136 (1), pp. 1-72 : 43

Pycnopalpa (Pycnopalpa) bicordata (Saint-Fargeau & Serville, 1825)

Fig. 20A, B

Distribution: Brazil: Paraná, Rio de Janeiro; Colombia: Santander, Tolima, Valle del Cauca; Costa Rica; Ecuador: Pichincha; Honduras; México; Panama.

New record for the Paraná State.

Comments: This species presents a very broad geographic distribution, and has four junior synonyms, P. contaminata ( Walker, 1869) , P. morata Vignon, 1930 , P. mortuifolia Rehn, 1903 , and P. permaculata Vignon, 1930 . The individuals present a remarkable tegmina morphology, with a necrotic area well delimited, besides the conspicuous pronotum, where two stains that resembles a heart are found.

Bioacoustics: Sound not recorded.

Figures

FIGURE 20. Species of Pycnopalpini and Scaphurae (Phaneropterinae) from the ParNa Iguaçu. A and B: Pycnopalpa bicordata, male and female; C and D: Topana cincticornis, male and female; E and F: Scaphura elegans, male and female; G and H: S. nigra, male and female; I: Scaphura sp. 1, female.