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Conocephalinae
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Conocephalini
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Conocephalus
Conocephalus longipes (Redtenbacher, 1891)
male (Buenos Aires, La Plata, Laguna de los Patos, February 2015)
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Chubut
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- La Pampa
- La Rioja
- Mendoza
- Misiones
- Neuquén
- Río Negro
- San Juan
- Santa Fe
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
south of Paraguay and Brazil
Common in grassland, especially in humid environments. Audults are always long-winged. Active at day, probably also at night. The song is very continuous, but mostly ultrasound, and only close to a calling male a faint rattle is audible to the unaided ear. Total length 30 mm.
- REDTENBACHER, J. 1891. Monographie der Conocephaliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 41:315-562:505.
- REHN, J.A.G. 1913. A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Argentina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 65:273-379:375.
- PIRÁN, A.A. 1941. Catálogo sistemático y zoogeográfico de Tettigonioideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 11(2):119-168:158.
- EBNER, R. 1953. Einige Tettigoniiden aus Argentina und Chile (Orthop.). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 16(1):9-14:9.
- FIANCO, M., SZINWELSKI, N. & FARIA, L.R.R. 2022. Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil. Zootaxa 5136(1):1–72 :11.
