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Issue: Vol. 5263 No. 3: 6 Apr. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-04-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.3.7
Page range: 430-440
Abstract views: 243
PDF downloaded: 14

The Austral Predator Katydid—new species of Megatympanon Piza, 1958 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Listroscelidinae: Terpandrini) from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia e Biologia de Peixes; Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá; Caixa Postal 38.69553- 225; Tefé; Amazonas; Brasil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; INPA; Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia; Caixa Postal 2223; 69080-971; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil.
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana; 44036-900; Feira de Santana; Bahia; Brazil.
Orthoptera Katydid Atlantic Forest Southern Brazil predatory species Bush-crickets

Abstract

Megatympanon Piza, 1958 (Tettigoniidae: Listroscelidinae: Terpandrini) is presently a monotypic genus and the only Terpandrini occurring in South America. The type-species M. speculatum Piza, 1958 is recorded in the Atlantic Forest biome in southeastern Brazil. In this work, we describe an additional species, Megatympanon austroraptorum sp. nov., the second species of the genus, occurring in the Southern Atlantic Forest biome. The new species is described based only on a single male; the female of the new species is unknown. A distribution map of the genus is provided as well as comments on the natural history of the new species.

 

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