A new species of Zoniopoda (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Romaleidae) from Argentina and its phylogenetic position within the genus

POCCO, M.E.; RUBIO, G.E.; CIGLIANO, M.M.

ZOOTAXA

MAGNOLIA PRESS

Año: 2011

1175-5326

A new species of the grasshopper romaleid genus Zoniopoda Stål (Romaleidae: Romaleini) is described and illustrated from Sierras Chicas of Córdoba province, central Argentina. Cladistic analysis based on morphological characters indicates that the genus Zoniopoda constitutes a monophyletic group, and that Zoniopoda serrana n.sp. must be assigned to IHERINGI species group based on synapomorphies of the pronotum and body color. The new species is similar to Z. similis Bruner from Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, from which it can be distinguished by the color pattern of the body, shape of the dorso-median carina of pronotum and characteristics of male terminalia and epiphallus.  The edition of this paper has been formatted with embedded links to images of the type specimen, maps based on georreferenced specimen data of the genus, and an updated species key of Zoniopoda available on the Orthoptera Species File (OSF) online (http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org).