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.