Copiphora hastata Naskrecki
- Dataset
- Katydids of Costa Rica / Vol. 1, Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae sensu lato).
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- genus
- Copiphora
- species
- Copiphora hastata
biology_ecology
Typical of the genus, the airborne signals of C. hastata are accompanied by substrate tremulations. They are produced both in the absence of the female as well as after the female approaches the male. The substrate signals are similar to those observed in other species of Copiphora, and consist of rapid, shaking movements of the entire body, and unlike Lirometopum coronatum, lack any percussive behavior. Tremulations are produced in series of bouts at 26 Hz. After the initial contact with the female, the male almost entirely ceases to produce airborne signals and switches to tremulations. Females respond with nearly identical tremulations but of much lower amplitude.
diagnosis
C. hastata can be easily identified among Costa Rican members of the genus by the presence of a dark brown patch covering most of the face, and the shape of the fastigium of vertex. Females of this new species as well as those of C. cultricornis have consistently the longest ovipositors among all Copiphora spp. in Costa Rica (and, in fact, all Tettigoniidae). From the closely related C. cultricornis it differs in the coloration of the face (yellow in C. cultricornis) and tegmina (posterior edges of tegmina reddish in C. hastata, green in C. cultricornis), shape of the fastigium of vertex (distinctly longer and more flattened laterally in C. cultricornis), characteristics of the male’s stridulatory file (file with more teeth in C. cultricornis) as well as the characteristics of the male’s call (Figs. 55 D-E). Tremulations of these two species, however, are virtually identical, suggesting that they play little or no role in species recognition.
materials_examined
Material examined. — COSTA RICA: Alajuela Prov., 2 km S Pital, 5 - 28 September 1988 (coll. F. D. Parker) - 1 male, 1 female (paratypes) (EMUS); Estac. San Ramón Oeste, elev. 620 m, 19 April 1994 (coll. F. Quesada) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Zona Protectora de Arenal, Pocosol, 10 - 16 February 1994 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 1 nymph (PN collection); Cartago Prov., Monumento Nacional Guayabo, A. C. A. C. Amistad, 15 July 1994 (coll. G. Fonseca) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Turrialba, 4 June 1951 (coll. O. L. Cartwright) - 1 female (paratype) (PN collection); same locality, 5 June 1951 (coll. O. L. Cartwright) - 1 female (paratype) (PN collection); Guanacaste Prov., 2 km N Colonia Blanca, P. N. Rincón de la Vieja, elev. 800 m, 28 June 1992 (coll. III curso Parataxon.) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); 14 km S Cañas, 15 - 20 October 1990 (coll. F. D. Parker) - 1 male (paratype) (EMUS); Estac. Cacao, 2 km SW del Cerro Cacao, elev. 1000 - 1400 m, 12 - 17 February 1995 (coll. S. Avila) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Cacao, Lado suroeste del Volcán Cacao, P. N. Guanacaste, elev. 1000 - 1400 m, 15 June 1990 (coll. II curso Parataxon) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Maritza, lado O Vol. Orosí, elev. 600 m, 10 March 1992 (coll. K. Taylor) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Pitilla, 9 km S. Santa Cecilia, elev. 700 m, 18 - 23 July 1993 (coll. C. Moraga) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); same locality, 15 May 1994 (coll. C. Moraga) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Pitilla, 9 km St. Cecilia, elev. 700 m, 15 July 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); same locality, 15 August 1988 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 nymph (INBio); same locality, 15 June 1989 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); same locality, 18 August 1993 (coll. P. Rios) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); same locality, 1 - 30 June 1996 (coll. P. Rios) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Estac Cacao, SW side Volcán Cacao, elev. 1000 - 1400 m, 1 December 1989 (coll. R. Blanco and C. Chávez) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Mengo, SW side Volcán Cacao, elev. 1100 m, 15 February 1989 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Pitilla, 9 km S Santa Cecilia, elev. 700 m, 15 March 1989 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 nymph (INBio); Finca Pasmompa Estación Pitilla, 5 km SW Santa Cecilia, elev. 400 m, 15 May 1989 (coll. GNP Biodiversity Survey) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Heredia Prov., Braulio Carillo N. P., Estac. El Ceibo, elev. 400 - 600 m, 15 November 1989 (coll. R. Aguilar and M. Zumbado) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Magsasay, P. N. Braulio Carillo, elev. 200 m, 15 November 1990 (coll. M. A. Zumbado) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); same locality, elev. 200 m, 15 May 1991 (coll. M. A. Zumbado) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); same locality, elev. 200 m, 15 July 1991 (coll. A. Fernández) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); Finca La Selva (on Río Puerto Viejo just above jct. with Río Sarapiquí), 3 August 1962 (coll. C. F. Walker) - 1 female (paratype) (UMMZ); La Selva, 1 July - 31 August 1991 (coll. J. Doubles) - 1 male (paratype) (UMMZ); Puerto Viejo, La Selva Biological Station, elev. 50 - 150 m, 10 ° 26 ' N, 84 ° 1 ' W, 1 March 1992 (coll. S. Cunningham) - 1 male (paratype) (PN collection); same locality, 15 March 1994 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 3 females (paratypes) (PN collection); same locality, 1 - 4 April 1994 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 4 males, 1 female (holotype male, allotype female, paratypes) (ANSP); same locality, 7 - 10 December 1995 (coll. P. Naskrecki) - 1 female (paratype) (PN collection); Limón Prov., Cuatro Esquinas, P. N. Tortuguero, elev. 0 m, 15 April 1989 (coll. R. Aguilar and J. Solano) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Cuatro Esquinas, Tortuguero N. P., 15 September 1989 (coll. J. Solano) - 1 male, 1 female (paratypes) (INBio); same locality, 15 November 1989 (coll. J. Solano) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); Estac. Cuatro Esquinas, Tortuguero N. P., 15 June 1990 (coll. E. Quesada) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); same locality, elev. 0 - 120 m, 16 July 1990 (coll. E. Quesada) - 1 male (paratype), 2 nymphs (INBio); Estac. Hitoy-Cerere Res. Biol. Hitoy Cerere, Río Cerere, elev. 200 m, 15 September 1990 (coll. G. Carballo) - 1 male (paratype) (INBio); same locality, elev. 100 m, 15 June 1991 (coll. G. Carballo) - 1 nymph (INBio); same locality, elev. 100 m, 15 June 1992 (coll. G. Carballo) - 2 females (paratypes) (INBio); same locality, elev. 100 m, 15 July 1992 (coll. G. Carballo) - 2 females (paratypes) (INBio); Hamburg Farm, (coll. C. W. Dodge) - 1 female (paratype) (MCZC); same locality, (coll. C. W. Dodge) - 1 male (paratype) (MCZC); Manzanillo, RNFS Gandoca y Manzanillo, elev. 0 - 100 m, 13 October 1992 (coll. K. Taylor) - 1 female (paratype) (INBio); NICA- RAGUA: Zelaya el Recreo, 1 - 31 October 1984 (coll. Foret) - 1 male, 2 females (paratypes) (MNHN).
materials_examined
Type locality: Costa Rica: Heredia Prov., La Selva Biological Station; type depository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia – holotype male
Name
- Homonyms
- Copiphora hastata Naskrecki