Bioacoustics of Some Mexican Orthoptera (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera)

Abstract

The songs of the following species are presented: Conocephalus (Xiphidion) cinereus

An annotated catalogue of the pygmy grasshoppers of the tribe Scelimenini Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with two new Scelimena species from the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra

“…nov., F. gestroi, F. inaequalis, F. karnyi, F. planitarsus) (Storozhenko 2017). Gavialidium becvari is transferred here, thus Falconius becvari (Buzzetti & Devriese, 2008) comb. nov.…”

“…Also, the second author of the species (H. Devriese) was reviewer of the paper and did not disagree with the new combination. Drawings in the paper (Buzzetti & Devriese 2008) are good and presence of the head frontal view drawing is very helpful in assigning the species to the correct genus.…”

“…Type locality: N Sumatra: Gunung Leuser NP: Bukit Lawang Notes. Gavialidium becvari Buzzetti & Devriese, 2008 has the lateral ocelli between the eyes (as opposed to on the lower margin of the compound eyes), lacks strong pronotal projections (as opposed to presence), frontal costa is short in frontal view (as opposed to long), fastigium is slightly wider than an eye, and lacks horns. All of those are characters of Falconius so we introduce a new combination-Falconius becvari (Buzzetti & Devriese, 2008) comb.…”

<p class="HeadingRunIn"><strong>Studies in Mexican Tettigoniidae: A new genus of Copiphorini and the first description of male <em>Conocephalus</em> (<em>Aphauropus</em>) <em>leptopterus</em> Rehn and Hebard and the female of <em>Insara</em> <em>acutitegmina </em>Fontana, Buzzetti, Mariño-Pérez &amp; García García</strong></p>

“…However, katydids are often elusive, camouflaging themselves well to skillfully blend into their surroundings and they are more often heard than seen. The camouflage, notorious in this family, may be one reason that quite a few of the recent publications on the family in Mexico have focused on acoustics (Barrientos and Hollander, 1994;Hollander and Barrientos, 1994;Barrientos-Lozano and Montes-Torres, 1997;Buzzetti and Barrientos-Lozano, 2011). Few taxonomists work with this group in Mexico for a variety of reasons.…”

“…For such a large and diverse family, there has been surprisingly little work on it within Mexico with only relatively few papers published over the last twenty years. These publications can be placed into loose groups based on their general content: song descriptions and sound-based taxonomy (Barrientos-Lozano and Montes-Torres, 1997; Buzzetti and Barrientos-Lozano, 2011), acoustic and morphometric comparisons to differentiate species (Barrientos and Hollander, 1994;Hollander and Barrientos, 1994), mate choice and/or hybridization experiments (Barrientos-Lozano, 1998;Barrientos-Lozano, 2000), and population estimations (Zúñiga et al, 2002). Concerning morphological taxonomy, there have been some publications dealing with new taxa, but only for the subfamily Phaneropterinae.…”