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Genus Colpolopha Stål, 1873 Diagnosis. Diagnostic features distinguishing Colpolopha from other related genera are given in Table 1. Geographic distribution. The genus Colpolopha is distributed in Central America (Costa Rica and Panama) and the upper half of South America (Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil)., Published as part of Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo & Pocco, Martina E., 2023, A new species of Colpolopha Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Romaleidae) from Brazil, pp. 381-392 in Zootaxa 5264 (3) on page 382, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7836768

Colpolopha minuta sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Romaleidae) is described from Floresta Nacional do Aripe near Crato in Ceará State, Brazil from 17 specimens collected by Moacyr Alvarenga deposited at the Insect Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. This new species is characterized by its small size and brachypterous tegmina compared to other known Colpolopha species. A comparison with other short-winged Colpolopha species is provided. A discussion about some iNaturalist records is provided in order to help us identify possible new records or species in the region.

1. Colpolopha minuta sp. nov. Mariño-Pérez & Pocco (figs. 1–3) Diagnosis. A unique combination of small size (males average about 25 mm, females average about 32 mm), short fastigium, as long as the eye, slightly longer than the interocular distance, pronotum in lateral view with transverse sulci deep, delimiting three lobes at prozona, metazona shorter than prozona, pronotal crest slightly crenulated on its posterior part; tegmina short, not surpassing the second abdominal segment, bilobed (in some male and female specimens, slightly trilobed), uniformly colored. Aedeagal valves simple, slightly transversally grooved; epiphallus rectangular with posterior projections rounded. Male description. Medium-sized grasshoppers. Body brownish colored. Antennae with 17–18 segments, without exceeding the end of the pronotum. Fastigium of the vertex in lateral view projecting beyond scape and pedicel, rounded and smoothly curving towards rostrum, until connecting at frontal costa; in frontal view with pointed apex and delimited by a groove on each side. Central ocellus located under the vertex, frontal costa originating from the central ocellus in the form of an inverted “v”, reaching the fronto-clypeal suture. Furrows that delimit the frontal costa and fronto-clypeal suture with granules. Prosternal tubercle straight, spiniform, forwardly inclined. Anterior margin of pronotum with an apical projection, extended over occiput; median dorsal carina cut by deep transverse sulci, delimiting three lobes at prozona; metazona shorter than prozona and mesozona together, triangular in shape, posterior margin ending in a projection; pronotal crest slightly crenulated on its posterior part. Lateral carinae in “v” in lateral view, well-marked and with granules. Anterior and middle femora with some granules dorsally and ventrally unarmed, anterior tibia with 7-8 distal spinules on both ventral margins, middle tibia with 6–8 spinules on each ventral margin. Typical posterior femur of the genus (serrulated dorsally and smooth ventrally), posterior tibia with 8–9 spines on each dorsal margin, the spines of the inner margin being larger. Tegmina short, slightly bilobed, and barely reaching the second abdominal segment/ the first quarter of the hind femur (in four males, the tegmina was very slightly trilobed); uniformly colored. Tergites armed with a single spine close to their posterior border (but not at their end) at the midline. Dorsal margin of the tenth tergite divided, furculae present with blacktips, triangular epiproct. Cerci conical without exceeding the length of the epiproct and with a pointed apex. Subgenital plate with pointed apex. Phallic complex. Epiphallus. Lophi rounded, with an apical protuberance, posterior projections broad and semicircular, bridge narrow and bent (dorsal view), ancorae triangular, anterior projections reduced and square in shape, lateral plates ovoid. Ectophallus and endophallus. Aedeagus apical valves reduced and simple, slightly grooved transversally, covered almost entirely by the cingulum; cingulum anteriorly cloven, apodemes of cingulum short, barely covering the apodemes of endophallus and partially covering the endophallus from lateral view. Apodemes of endophallus widened and subovoid. Female description. Larger and stouter than males. Antennae with 17–18 segments, without exceeding the apex of the pronotum. Fastigium of the vertex in lateral view projecting as much as scape and pedicel, rounded and slightly curving towards rostrum, until connecting at frontal costa; in frontal view with the pointed apex and delimited by a groove on each side. Central ocellus located under the vertex, frontal costa originating from the central ocellus in the form of an inverted “v”, reaching the fronto-clypeal suture. Furrows that delimit the frontal costa and fronto-clypeal suture with granules. Prosternal tubercle straight, spiniform, forwardly inclined. Pronotal disc with three clearly cut grooves. Anterior margin of the pronotum with an apical projection more pronounced here than in the male; metazona shorter than prozona and mesozona together, triangular in shape, posterior margin ending in a projection. Lateral carinae in “V” from a lateral view, well-marked and with granules. Anterior and middle femora with some granules dorsally and ventrally unarmed, anterior tibia with 6–7 distal spinules on both ventral margins, middle tibia with 4–7 spinules on each ventral margin. Typical posterior femur of the genus (serrulated dorsally and smooth ventrally), posterior tibia with 8–10 spines on each dorsal margin, the spines of the inner margin being more prominent. Tegmina short, slightly bilobed (in five females, the tegmina was very slightly trilobed), and barely reaching the second abdominal segment/the first quarter of the hind femur. Tergites armed with a single spine close to their posterior border (but not at their end) at the midline, here in females less pronounced than in males and sometimes very reduced in the last tergites. Dorsal margin of the tenth tergite divided. Triangular epiproct. Cerci conical without exceeding the length of the epiproct and with a pointed apex. Ovipositor valves short, triangular, more sclerotized at the tips and pointed outwards. Male measurements in mm (n=9). Total length 23.3–27.5 (24.92; 1.14); pronotum length 6.9–9.0 (7.72; 0.68); tegmina length 5.0–6.0 (5.42; 0.32); hind femur length 11.1–13.1 (12.30; 0.56). Female measurements in mm (n=8). Total length 30.3–33.6 (31.73; 1.02); pronotum length 11.5–12.6 (11.98; 0.35); tegmina length 7.0–7.6 (7.25; 0.27); hind femur length 15.1–16.3 (15.66; 0.46). Type Material. Male holotype: Brazil. Ceará, Crato (Serra do Araripe) 850 m. May 1969. M. Alvarenga. Paratypes 8 males and 8 females from the same locality. Deposited at UMMZ. Geographic distribution (fig. 9). This species has only been recorded from the type locality. The collector’s name came to our attention, and we found on the website of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum—Division of Entomology, the information below, which we consider pertinent to share here. Moacyr Alvarenga (1915–2010) collected a large number of Brazilian insects that are now represented in museum collections worldwide. He has six genera (one of which is the basis for Anobiidae subfamily Alvarenganiellinae, and another is the basis of the melolonthid tribe Alvarengiini) and more than one hundred species named after him (including plants as well as scarabaeoids (lucanids, scarabaeines, bolboceratids, melolonthines, rutelines, and dynastines), blattarians, hemipterans, homopterans, dipterans, orthopterans, mantids, hymenopterans, araneans, nematods, and one amphibian). He was a Brazilian Air Force officer, permitting him to travel around Brazil collecting in numerous places never collected before or since. He worked on Neotropical Erotylidae and published several papers on this group. He published one paper on scarabs, the description of the dynastine Agaocephala margarida e, named after his wife. Most of his beetle collection is in the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro and in the Museu Paranaense in Curitiba (https://unsm-ento.unl.edu/workers/MAlvarenga.htm). Etymology. The specific epithet refers to its small size among all the known species of Colpolopha., Published as part of Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo & Pocco, Martina E., 2023, A new species of Colpolopha Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Romaleidae) from Brazil, pp. 381-392 in Zootaxa 5264 (3) on pages 383-387, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7836768

Romalea microptera “Eastern lubber grasshopper” Figures 63 (lateral), 64 (dorsal, ventral) Plates 38 (lateral), 39 (dorsal), 40 (ventral) The tracheal structure of the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera features a substantial number of air sacs, integrated into the tracheal system, and discrete air cells distributed throughout the body, especially the head and thorax. Due to the complexity of the tracheal architecture of Romalea, only spiracles and major tracheae are labeled in the plates. 3D models are provided in the supplementary digital data for further investigation., Published as part of Herhold, Hollister W, Davis, Steven R, Degrey, Samuel P & Grimaldi, David A, 2023, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE INSECT TRACHEAL SYSTEM PART 1: INTRODUCTION, APTERYGOTES, PALEOPTERA, POLYNEOPTERA, pp. 1-184 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 459 (1) on pages 1-184, DOI: 10.5531/sd.sp.55, http://zenodo.org/record/7730159

Herhold, Hollister W, Davis, Steven R, Degrey, Samuel P, Grimaldi, David A (2023): COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE INSECT TRACHEAL SYSTEM PART 1: INTRODUCTION, APTERYGOTES, PALEOPTERA, POLYNEOPTERA. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 459 (1): 1-184, DOI: 10.5531/sd.sp.55, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5531/sd.sp.55

The genus Bactrophora Westwood, 1842 comprises only two species known from Central America and northern South America, with a notable scarcity of collected specimens. Herein, we provide the first records of the presence of this genus in Brazil. These new records, based on entomological collection data and photographic records, extend the known distribution of Bactrophora dominans Westwood, 1842 to include the Brazilian Amazonian region. Both records emphasize the importance of natural history collections and the significance of the iNaturalist web-based application as an instrumental tool in this discovery.

Debido a la reciente migración de la ¨Langosta Centroamericana¨ Schistocerca piceifrons piceifrons (Walker, 1870) en algunos países de América Central, la población panameña está preocupada, por la posibilidad de que dicha plaga, que oficialmente aún no ha sido reportada para Panamá, se encuentre en el país. Sumado a ello, algunos medios de comunicación han hecho circular imágenes de una especie de saltamontes, vista con frecuencia en ciudades como David, a la cual le atribuyeron equivocadamente ser la “Langosta Centroamericana”. El objetivo del presente estudio fue identificar dicha especie de Orthoptera, encontrada con frecuencia en áreas urbanas de la Ciudad de David, Chiriquí, Panamá; además de actualizar la distribución conocida de dicha especie en el país y conocer las plantas asociadas a la misma. Para ello, se realizaron colectas en David y localidades próximas, como Alanje, Boquerón, Bugaba y el Corregimiento de Chiriquí. Se colectaron especímenes adultos del saltamontes, los cuales fueron montados e identificados posteriormente en Cerro Punta, Chiriquí, utilizando como apoyo claves taxonómicas, literatura especializada y se revisó dos colecciones entomológicas. Los resultados obtenidos indicaron que, la especie de saltamontes observada frecuentemente en David y localidades próximas correspondió a Taeniopoda varipennis Rehn, 1905 (Orthoptera: Romaleidae), la cual ha sido reportada previamente y no representa una alarma para la Provincia ni tampoco para Panamá, dada la amplia distribución de esta especie en el país. Las colectas realizadas amplían los reportes de la especie para la Provincia de Chiriquí, además de que, durante la investigación se recibió reportes confirmativos de la especie en las Provincias de Veraguas, Coclé, Panamá Oeste y Panamá. En cuanto a la vegetación asociada, se encontró 13 especies diferentes de plantas, confirmando su hábito polífago. Los Acridoidea merecen especial atención, por su capacidad de afectar tanto vegetación silvestre como plantas de interés. Se recomienda continuar investigando este taxón.

Eugregarines are understudied apicomplexan parasites of invertebrates inhabiting marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most currently known terrestrial eugregarines have been described parasitizing the gut from less than 1% of total insect diversity, with a high likelihood that the remaining insect species are infected. Eugregarine diversity in orthopterans (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, and crickets) is still little known. We carried out a survey of the eugregarines parasitizing the Mexican lubber grasshopper, Taeniopoda centurio, an endemic species to the northwest of Mexico. We described two new eugregarine species from the gut of the host: Amoebogregarina taeniopoda n. sp. and Quadruspinospora mexicana n. sp. Both species are morphologically dissimilar in their life-cycle stages. Our SSU rDNA phylogenetic analysis showed that both species are phylogenetically distant to each other, even though they parasitize the same host. Amoebogregarina taeniopoda n. sp. clustered within the clade Gregarinoidea, being closely related to Amoebogregarina nigra from the grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis. Quadruspinospora mexicana n. sp. clustered within the clade Actinocephaloidea and grouped with Prismatospora evansi, a parasite from dragonfly naiads. Amoebogregarina taeniopoda n. sp. and Q. mexicana n. sp. represent the first record of eugregarines found to infect a species of the family Romaleidae.

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, Lima, Raysa Martins (2021): How to distinguish the Xestotrachelus Bruner, 1913 (Orthoptera: Romaleidae: Romaleini) from other Romaleini in South America, with a report of the first record in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Insecta Mundi 2021 (873): 1-9, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5113774, {"references":["Bruner L. 1911. South American Acridoidea. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 8(1): 5-147.","Bruner L. 1913. South American locusts (Acridoidea) II. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 8(3-4): 469.","Cadena-Castaneda OJ, Cardona-Granda JM. 2015. Introduccion a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera, Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea). Lulu press; North Carolina. 534 p.","Carbonell CS. 1986. Revision of the Neotropical genus Tropidacris (Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Romaleidae, Romaleinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138: 366-402.","Carbonell CS. 2007. The genus Zoniopoda (Acridoidea, Romaleidae, Romaleinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research 16(1): 1-33.","Cigliano MM, Braun H, Eades DC, Otte D. 2021. Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0/5.0. Available at http://Orthoptera. SpeciesFile.org (Last accessed October 18, 2021.)","Kirby WF. 1910. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. Vol. III. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part II. Locustidae vel Acridiidae. British Museum (Natural History); London. 674 p.","McCafferty WP. 2001. Reporting species record data. Entomological News 111: 311-312.","Rehn JAG. 1944. The genera Aplatacris and Thrasyderes (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Romaleinae, Tropidacres). Notulae Naturae 131: 1-12.","Rehn JAG, Grant HJ Jr. 1959a. A review of the Romaleinae (Orthoptera; Acrididae) found in America north of Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 111: 109-271.","Rehn JAG, Grant HJ Jr. 1959b. An analysis of the tribes of the Romaleinae with special reference to their internal genitalia (Orthoptera; Acrididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 85(3): 233-271.","Roberts HR, Carbonell CS. 1982. A revision of the grasshopper genera Chromacris and Xestotrachelus (Orthoptera, Romaleidae, Romaleinae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 43(4): 43-58.","Rowell CHF. 2013. The grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society; Philadelphia. 611 p."]}

Greco-Spíngola, Silvana, Jorge, Carolina, Lorier, Estrellita (2020): Acridomorpha (Orthoptera) species associated with the protected wetlands of Santa Lucía, Montevideo, Uruguay. Check List 16 (3): 597-610, DOI: 10.15560/16.3.597, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/16.3.597

Maculiparia guyanensis Carbonell, 2002 TYPE LOCALITY. ��� French Guiana, Trois Sauts, Oyapock. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� French Guiana ��� 1 ♂; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka: ��� Layon D���; 2��14���08.5���N, 54��27���03.2���W; 280 m a.s.l. to 2��14���25.8���N, 54��27���16.9���W; 365 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MNHN ��� 1 ♂; ���(C 1000) ��� (Savane roche)���; 2��14���01.2���N, 54��26���30.8���W; 415 m a.s.l. to 2��14���19.2���N, 54��26���04.6���W; 390 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II- 3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MLP. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Known from the type locality at the east of French Guiana, near the Oyapock River, the Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke, in the outskirts of Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil (Mattioti et al. 2015) and the records herein., Published as part of Pocco, Martina E. & Cigliano, Mar��a Marta, 2020, The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana, pp. 105-114 in Zoosystema 42 (7) on page 112, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7, http://zenodo.org/record/3703193, {"references":["CARBONELL C. S. 2002. - The Grasshopper Tribe Phaeopariini (Acridoidea: Romaleidae), 148 p."]}

Aeolacris caternaultii (Feisthamel, 1837) TYPE LOCALITY. ��� French Guiana, Cayenne. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� French Guiana ��� 1 ♂; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka: ���vers sommet en Cloche ���; 2��14���05.6���N, 54��27���14.8���W, 370 m to 2��13���58.4���N, 54��27���52.6���W; 470 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN / PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II- 3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MLP. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Known from Brazil (Manaus) and French Guiana., Published as part of Pocco, Martina E. & Cigliano, Mar��a Marta, 2020, The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana, pp. 105-114 in Zoosystema 42 (7) on page 112, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7, http://zenodo.org/record/3703193

Titanacris albipes (De Geer, 1773) TYPE LOCALITY. ��� Suriname. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� French Guiana ��� 1 ♂; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka:��� Layon A���; 2��14���08.5���N, 54��27���03.2���W; 280 m a.s.l. to 2��14���25.8���N, 54��27���16.9���W, 365 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MLP. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Species distributed in the Guyano-Amazonic region. Brazil (Amazonas, Rondonia, Mato Grosso) and French Guiana (Descamps & Carbonell 1985)., Published as part of Pocco, Martina E. & Cigliano, Mar��a Marta, 2020, The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana, pp. 105-114 in Zoosystema 42 (7) on page 112, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7, http://zenodo.org/record/3703193, {"references":["DESCAMPS M. & CARBONELL C. S. 1985. - Revision of the Neotropical arboreal genus Titanacris (Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Romaleidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France. Nouvelle serie 21 (3): 259 - 285."]}

Colpolopha obsoleta (Serville, 1831) (Fig. 2E) TYPE LOCALITY. ��� French Guiana: [mislabeled Cape of Good Hope]. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� French Guiana ��� 1 ♂, 2 ♀; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka: ��� Layon D���; 2��14���08.5���N, 54��27���03.2���W; 280 m a.s.l. to 2��14���25.8���N, 54��27���16.9���W; 365 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MNHN ��� 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; MLP ��� 1 ♂; ��� Layon D���; 2��14���08.5���N, 54��27���03.2���W; 280 m a.s.l. to 2.2338��N, 54.4517��W; 293 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MNHN ��� 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; MLP ��� 1 ♀; ���vers sommet en Cloche ���; 2��14���05.6���N, 54��27���14.8���W; 370 m to 2��13���58.4���N, 54��27���52.6���W; 470 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MNHN ��� 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; MLP. DISTRIBUTION. ��� North South America, Brazil Amazonas (Mattioti et al. 2015) and French Guiana., Published as part of Pocco, Martina E. & Cigliano, Mar��a Marta, 2020, The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana, pp. 105-114 in Zoosystema 42 (7) on page 112, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7, http://zenodo.org/record/3703193

Phaeoparia lineaalba lineaalba (Linnaeus, 1764) TYPE LOCALITY. ��� French Guiana, Trois Sauts, Oyapock. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� French Guiana ��� 1 ♂; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka: ���vers sommet en Cloche ���; 2��14���05.6���N, 54��27���14.8���W; 370 m to 2��13���58.4���N, 54��27���52.6���W; 470 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN / PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MNHN ��� 1 ♂, 1 ♀; ��� Layon D���, 2��14���08.5���N 54��27���03.2���W; 280 m a.s.l. to 2��14���01.7���N 54��27���06.1���W; 293 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II- 3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MLP. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Widely distributed subspecies in the Guyano- Amazonian region. (French Guiana, Colombia, Suriname, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil) (Carbonell 2002)., Published as part of Pocco, Martina E. & Cigliano, Mar��a Marta, 2020, The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana, pp. 105-114 in Zoosystema 42 (7) on page 112, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7, http://zenodo.org/record/3703193, {"references":["CARBONELL C. S. 2002. - The Grasshopper Tribe Phaeopariini (Acridoidea: Romaleidae), 148 p."]}

Othnacris surdaster Descamps, 1977 (Fig. 2F) TYPE LOCALITY. ��� French Guiana, Trois Sauts, Oyapock. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� French Guiana ��� 1 nymph; Tumuc-Humac, Mitaraka, ��� Layon D���; 2��14���08.5���N, 54��27���03.2���W; 280 m a.s.l. to 2��14���25.8���N, 54��27���16.9���W; 365 m a.s.l.; Legendre F. & Hugel S. leg.; 23.II-3.X.2015; night; La Plan��te Revisit��e ��� MNHN /PNI Guyane 2015 (APA 973 -1); MNHN ��� 1 nymph; same data as for preceding; MLP. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Known from French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amazonas, Par��)., Published as part of Pocco, Martina E. & Cigliano, Mar��a Marta, 2020, The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana, pp. 105-114 in Zoosystema 42 (7) on page 113, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7, http://zenodo.org/record/3703193, {"references":["DESCAMPS M. 1977. - Etude des ecosystemes Guyanais. I. Eumastacoides & Acridoidea dendrophiles (Orthoptera). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France. Nouvelle serie 13 (2): 193 - 236."]}

The open vegetation biomes, within the limits of the Chacoan subregion, occur along a diagonal in eastern South America covering a large range of environmental conditions. In order to contribute to the knowledge on the biodiversity of these open biomes, we analysed the phylogenetic relationships of the grasshopper genus Zoniopoda to the remaining South American Romaleinae, and examined the biogeographical patterns of diversification of the genus. The study is based on morphological and molecular (COI and H3) evidence, including 12 species of Zoniopoda and 17 species of four tribes of South American Romaleinae. We describe a new species of Zoniopoda, and test its taxonomic placement within the group. Results of our phylogenetic analyses recovered Zoniopoda as a monophyletic group with high support values. According to the dispersion–vicariance analysis, the ancestor of Zoniopoda may have been distributed in an area corresponding to the Chacoan and Cerrado provinces. A vicariant event, that could be explained by the uplift of the Brazilian Plateau and the subsidence of the Chaco, is hypothesized to have occurred splitting the ancestral distribution of Zoniopoda, resulting in the independent evolution of the Tarsata group within the Cerrado and the Iheringi group in the Chacoan subregion. This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FCFB4C5D-1741-46F1-8E25-B37ED2B9D872. Fil: Pocco, Martina Eugenia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores; Argentina Fil: Guzman, Noelia Veronica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Plischuk, Santiago. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores; Argentina Fil: Confalonieri, Viviana Andrea. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Lange, Carlos Ernesto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores; Argentina Fil: Cigliano, Maria Marta. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores; Argentina

Taeniopoda is a genus of grasshoppers currently represented by 12 species distributed from southern USA to Panama, with most of them occurring along the transitional Nearctic–Neotropical region in central and southern Mexico. Despite being a small group of conspicuous, colourful species, the systematics of Taeniopoda has been largely neglected, including its phylogenetic affinity with the morphologically similar, monotypic genus Romalea. Here, we assessed the species limits in 11 of the species of Teniopoda based on two mitochondrial (mt) markers (COI, cyt b). Phylogenetic relationships were reconstructed adding two nuclear gene markers (28S, H3). A relaxed molecular clock analysis was performed based on the mt markers. We detected nuclear mt paralogues (numts) and the probable introgression of T. tamaulipensis mtDNA in specimens of T. eques from central Mexico. Between six and 14 species of Taeniopoda were delimited by the sequence-based approaches performed (COI divergence with thresholds of 1 and 2%; G...

La preocupación por conservar la biodiversidad crece debido al fuerte impacto que las actividades productivas y la urbanización ejercen sobre ella. Para enfrentar este problema es necesario determinar las especies con mayores amenazas. La gran mayoría de las especies animales prioritarias para la conservación son vertebrados, mientras que los invertebrados están prácticamente ausentes, a pesar de la gran diversidad de especies que presentan.Los acridios (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), conocidos comolangostas del país otucuras, son insectos herbívoros nativos típicos dediversos ambientes del Uruguay. La principal amenaza a las que se enfrentan son los cambios en el hábitat vinculados a las actividades agrícola-ganaderas y forestales.El objetivo de este trabajo fue conformar una lista de especies de acridios prioritarias para la conservación. Para determinar esta lista se siguieron algunos criterios empleados por otros autores para los arácnidos del Uruguay. Se confeccionó una lista de 38especies de acridoideos prioritarias para la conservaciónpertenecientes a las familias Ommexechidae (1), Romaleidae (10) y Acrididae (27). Este trabajo sienta las bases para generar acuerdos en el país y en la región en la conservación de la biodiversidad del grupo.

The Plains lubber grasshopper, Brachystola magna Girard (Orthoptera: Romaleidae), is the main insect pest of bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabales: Fabaceae), in Chihuahua, Durango, and Zacatecas states of Mexico. Satisfactory control depends on diligent application of insecticide; however, given its evasive ethology and relentless arrival at bean fields, management is difficult. The use of entomopathogenic fungi has been proposed as an alternative, because they are effective and environmentally friendly. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify taxa of entomopathogenic fungi based on morphological and molecular characteristics and evaluate biological activity under laboratory conditions against B. magna adults. The Hypocreales genera of Metarhizium Sorokin and Beauveria (Balsamo) Vuillemin entomopathogenic fungi were isolated and identified based on morphological and molecular characteristics. Under laboratory conditions, the life cycles were completed in 5.6 to 8.0 days for Metarhizium...

A checklist of the grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) collected during the expedition “Our Planet Reviewed” in 2015 to the Mitaraka Massif, French Guiana, is provided. Out of the 142 species of Acridomorpha known from this region, 23 species belonging to 22 genera, five families and nine subfamilies of Acridomorpha were registered herein. Additionally, Schistocerca pallens (Thunberg, 1815) and Trybliophorus sulcatus Descamps, 1981 were registered for the first time. An updated list of all the Acridomorpha recorded from French Guiana is also provided.

228. Peruviacris cerciata Descamps, 1983c: 401 Holotype male: Brazil, Amazonas: Benjamin Constant, VIII.1978, B. Silva, MNRJ-ENT6-019333. Allotype, same data, MNRJ-ENT6-019334. Paratypes, 14 males, 22 females, same data, MNRJ-ENT6-00103-001040. Tabatinga, male, 2 females, IX.1978, C.S. Peixoto, MNRJ-ENT6-001041-001044, 5 males, 6 females, same data, X.1978, C. S. Peixoto, MNRJ-ENT6-001059-001070., Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2018, An updated list of the type specimens of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 73-99 in Zootaxa 4462 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1441436, {"references":["Descamps, M. (1983 c) La faune dendrophile neotropicale. IX. Seconde revue des Ophthalmolampini. Le groupe des Ophthalmolampae (Orthoptera, Romaleidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, New Series, 19 (4), 367 - 404."]}

250. Phaeoparia lineaalba deceptrix Carbonell, 2002: 38 Holotype male: Brazil, Amazonas: Santo Antonio do Iça, 20-30.VIII.1948, C.S. Carbonell, MNRJ-ENT 6-0 19247., Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2018, An updated list of the type specimens of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 73-99 in Zootaxa 4462 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1441436, {"references":["Carbonell, C. S. (2002) The grasshopper tribe Phaeopariini (Acridoidea, Romaleidae). Publications on Orthoptera diversity. The Orthopterist's Society, Philadelphia, PA, 148 pp."]}