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Issue: Vol. 4688 No. 1: 21 Oct. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-10-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4688.1.10
Page range: 147–150
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 1

Clarifying the identity of the Uruguayan meadow katydid Conocephalus doryphorus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalini)

Sección Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR, Iguá 4225, Montevideo, Uruguay
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Conocephalini

Abstract

Conocephalus doryphorus (Karny, 1907), a member of the lesser meadow katydids, with around 150 recognized species in this genus with worldwide distribution, and around 25 of them living in South America, has been described from a unique immature female from an unknown locality in Uruguay.

 

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