TY - JOUR T1 - A new species of tree crickets Oecanthus (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Oecanthinae) in tobacco plantation from Southern Brazil, with body color variation JF - Zootaxa Y1 - 2015 A1 - Milach Elisa Machado A1 - Luciano de P. Martins A1 - Maria Kátia Matiotti Da Costa A1 - Marco Silva Gottschalk A1 - Gabriel Lobregat de Oliveira A1 - Redü, Darlan Rutz A1 - Neytzling, Alexandre Schneid A1 - Vasconcellos, Lucas Avezedo A1 - Zefa, Edison KW - bioacoustics KW - Ensifera KW - insects KW - metanotal gland KW - taxonomy AB -

We provide herein a description of a new species of Oecanthus collected from the tobacco plantation in southern Brazil, municipality of São Lourenço do Sul, State of Rio Grande do Sul. Description focused metanotal gland features, phallic sclerites, and calling song. A large sampling of individuals was distributed into four groups according to body and appendages color and dotted. We also rank all kind of marks present in the scape and pedicel. We compare linear morphometric variables of the metanotal glands and tegmina, as well as calling song parameters between groups in order do define all of them as the same species. Photographs and measurements are provided.

VL - 4018 UR - http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4018.2 IS - 2 JO - Zootaxa ER -