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Tettigoniidae
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Conocephalinae
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Conocephalini
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Conocephalus
Conocephalus doryphorus (Karny, 1907)
male (Buenos Aires, Parque Pereyra, February 2020)
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Entre Ríos
- Uruguay
Other distribution
- Xiphidion doryphorum Karny, 1907
Locally in meadows. Adults appear late in summer (February and March). Short-winged. Tegmina slightly longer than the pronotum in males, in females shorter. In females ovipositor almost as long as body and almost straight. Shy. Body length 17-18 mm.
- PIRÁN, A.A. 1941. Catálogo sistemático y zoogeográfico de Tettigonioideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 11(2):119-168:160.
- GRECO-SPINGOLA, S. & BRAUN, H. 2019. Clarifying the identity of the Uruguayan meadow katydid Conocephalus doryphorus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalini). Zootaxa. 4688(1):147–150:147.
