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Diagnosis

Content:  [translated from Beier 1960]

D i a g n o s i s: Lighter or darker olive-brown, more or less mottled. Body and legs everywhere densely and distinctly pubescent. Frons slightly wrinkled or almost smooth, under the eyes with flat longitudinal wrinkles. Genae indistinctly punctate. The two basal segments of antennae partly blackened. Pronotum very flatly, but fairly densely and slightly rugosely granulated, the front margin blackish, the rear margin with black spots. Tegmina in male with light venation on dark ground. left mirror area small and opaque, with glossy stridulatory vein, the right one large, with oval speculum. Females entirely wingless. Forefemora in male slightly thickened. Forefemora with 0-3, mid femora with 1-3, hind femora with 5-6 spines. Hind tibiae on dorsal outer edge with 4, on inner edge with 7 spines. Supra-anal plate broadly triangular, rounded. Male subgenital plate distally gradually narrowed, terminally with almost rectangular cut-out, styli rod like. Female subgenital plate triangular. Ovipositor broad, short, laterally without transverse folds, dorsal margin slightly convex, in distal half serrate. Male/female body length 19 mm, pronotum male 3.5 mm [Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895: pronotum 5 mm], female 5 mm, tegmina male 8 mm (width 4 mm), forefemora m/f 6 mm, hind femora male/female 10 mm, ovipositor 8.8 mm (width 2.3 mm).
Distribution: Colombia.

Source of information:  © Holger Braun.

Date last modified:  Saturday, July 28, 2007


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