Phlugis virens (Thunberg, 1815)

Fianco, Marcos, Szinwelski, Neucir & Faria, Luiz R. R., 2022, Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, Zootaxa 5136 (1), pp. 1-72 : 22

Phlugis virens (Thunberg, 1815)

Fig. 9B

Distribution: Brazil: Paraná; Cuba.

New record for Brazil and for the Paraná State.

Comments: This species is currently considered as a junior synonym of P. chrysopa , but we follow here the proposition of Dr. H. Braun that suggested on the OSF database ( Cigliano et al. 2022) that P. virens should be considered as a valid species. The subgenital plates of males figured here, although similar to P. chrysopa , present a much more restricted terminal dilation, resembling a golf club head. The syntypes of P. chrysopa , otherwise, present terminal dilations that are much longer and wider, resembling a spatula.

Bioacoustics: Sound not recorded.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Meconematinae from the ParNa Iguaçu. A: Phlugis occraceovittata, male; B: P. virens, male; C: Phlugis sp. 1, male; D: Phlugis sp. 2, male. E–H: calling songs of Phlugis occraceovittata. A: sonogram of a sequence of echemes; B: sonogram of three echemes; C: sonogram of a syllable; D; spectrogram of the respective syllable.