Albascopia afroensis ( Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015 ), Cadena-Castañeda, 2025

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2025, Studies on stick grasshoppers: New Proscopiini taxa from Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica (Orthoptera: Proscopiidae), Zootaxa 5729 (1), pp. 105-134 : 122-126

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.1.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:936B239A-F185-400F-AA4C-470745FEAE36
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17907831
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03907C79-F53C-353F-E0AD-FF592334FA31
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Albascopia afroensis ( Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015 )
status	comb. nov.

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Albascopia afroensis ( Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015) comb. nov.

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Pseudoproscopia afroensis Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015: 138–139 View in CoL . Holotype: male, COLOMBIA, Chocó , Tado. Depository: CAUD.

Comments. As the previous species, this species was described originally under the genus Pseudoproscopia , with its type locality situated at the rainforest of the Chocó department (Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona Granda 2015). The morphology of A. afroensis comb. nov. also fits in the new Albascopia redefinition, making the new combination for this species.

A record was also found for A. afroensis comb. nov., a male, likely attributable to this species, recorded further south in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121664388). This male aligns with the external characteristics and coloration of the holotype and paratype males, notably its black body coloration with greenish hind legs ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 ). These records are significant for observing live specimens and their coloration, as well as for determining the potential distribution range of these species (Map 1), given the limited number of specimens from nearby localities .