Updating the Taxonomy and Distribution of Liparoscelis Pallidispina Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae)

Abstract

A detailed complement to the description of the Mexican endemic Pseudophyllinae Liparoscelis pallidispina Stål, 1873 is herein presented, based on several old museum specimens plus recently collected adults. As results, the species diagnosis is updated according to the current taxonomical standards for the order. Moreover, its geographical distribution is clarified and the first precise records of this monotypic genus are given for Michoacán, México and Guerrero States, all of them located at moderately high altitudes on the southern slopes of the Transverse Neovolcanic Belt, above the northeastern reaches of the Balsas Basin. A thorough illustrative complement, which includes a precise map and color photographs of habitus, main morphologically diagnostic structures, habitat and microhabitat.