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Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005

Stone-jumping Bush-cricket
Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: male at type locality. (Otu).
Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: male at type locality. (Otu).
Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: female at type locality. (Otu).
Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: male in its habitat at type locality. (Otu).
Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: habitat (type locality). (Otu).
Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: close-up of habitat (type locality). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1576962; c24b6049-b610-4eca-aa27-199b03c1b3ac, CH6790: male nymph. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1576962; c24b6049-b610-4eca-aa27-199b03c1b3ac, CH6790: male nymph. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1598800; 8a9389f2-7e21-4aab-b320-cd901cb61020: female. (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1598801; efd4d984-43af-46eb-ae7f-04ccfa8fc18b: female. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1598800; 8a9389f2-7e21-4aab-b320-cd901cb61020: habitat. (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1598801; efd4d984-43af-46eb-ae7f-04ccfa8fc18b: habitat. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1598800; 8a9389f2-7e21-4aab-b320-cd901cb61020: male. (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1598801; efd4d984-43af-46eb-ae7f-04ccfa8fc18b: male. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (5)

  • Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: 162.

    Holotype; male; 5bdbd49f-1e04-4afa-898d-ab9dc4ced8ce; deposited at: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC); Greece: Thessaly and Central Greece: Evritania, between Kastania and Aghiro Pighadi, below summit Mt. Triandafillia

  • Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005: 269.
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  • Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005 in Willemse, Kleukers & Odé, 2018: 244.
  • Rhacocleis lithoscirtetes Willemse & Willemse, 2005 in Willemse, Odé & Stefanidis, 2025: 408, 410.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2005) Rhacocleis Fieber 1853 and Pterolepis Rambur 1838, distinct species groups or not? Journal of Orthoptera Research, 14(2), 261–269. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282005%2914%5B261%3ARFAPRD%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2005) Two new cryptic aberrant species of Rhacocleis Fieber 1853, living under stones in the mountains of Greece (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 14(2), 161–172. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282005%2914%5B161%3ATNCASO%5D2.0.CO%3B2
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  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.
  • Willemse, L., Odé, B. & Stefanidis, A. (2025) Rhacocleis parnassica sp.nov. a new cryptic bush-cricket (katydid) species from Greece (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 5723(3), 401–412. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.3.5

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Stone-jumper, from lithos = stone in Greek and scirtetes = jumper from the ancient Greek verb scirtao = to jump.

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