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Issue: Vol. 4688 No. 2: 22 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4688.2.6
Page range: 264–270
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of Polichnodes americana Giglio-Tos, 1898 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with a new record and habitat notes from Brazilian Amazon Rainforest

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 2223, 69080-971 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 2223, 69080-971 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 2223, 69080-971 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Orthoptera Phyllopterini Uberabina Terra Firme upland forest katydids

Abstract

In this work it was made the redescription of male of Polichnodes americana including new traits as internal genitalia and morphology of stridulatory files. Also it was recorded for the first time the distribution of this species to Brazil, in Amazonas, and notes on habitat.

 

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