Cadena-Castañeda Oscar J, Gutiérrez Yeisson, Bacca Tito
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos "Kumangui", Bogotá, Colombia.; Email:
Universiy of Münster, Institute of Landscape Ecology, 48149 Münster, Germany.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2016 Sep 9;4162(2):201-24. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.1.
A preliminary checklist of the Orthopterans from the Ñambí River Natural reserve is presented. A total of 26 species were studied, five new species are herein described: Championica nambiensis n. sp., Cocconotus awa n. sp., Cocconotus levyi n. sp. (Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae), Antillicharis kwaiker n. sp. (Gryllidae) and Brachybaenus nariniensis n. sp. (Gryllacrididae). Three species are recorded from Colombia for the first time (Legua crenulata, Uvaroviella (Holacla) nebulosa and Anabropsis alata) and seven species are new records for Nariño department (Allotettix peruvianus, Ripipteryx ecuadoriensis, Neoconocephalus affinis, Anaulacomera poculigera, Orophus conspersus, Orophus tessellatus and Neocurtilla hexadactyla). Further comments on species distribution and taxonomy are given.
