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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Platycleis waltheri Harz, 1966

Vaucluse Grey Bush-cricket
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: male pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: male pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: male titillators (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: male titillators lateral (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505833; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506474; ac61894d-93b1-43dc-97ce-55de53a5dcea: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506474; ac61894d-93b1-43dc-97ce-55de53a5dcea: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Platycleis waltheri Harz, 1966: 82.

    Holotype; male; 9ec19a7f-f1ce-403a-8155-30af49875018; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); France: Mornas near Orange, Vaucluse

  • Platycleis (Platycleis) waltheri Harz, 1966 in Harz, 1969: 244.
  • Platycleis waltheri Harz, 1966 in Hollier & Bruckner, 2015: 198.
  • Platycleis waltheri Harz, 1966 in Barataud, Derreumaux & Sardet, 2024: 38.

References (8)

  • Harz, K. (1966) Eine neue Laubheuschreckenart aus Frankreich (Tettigoniidae, Orthoptera). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 25, 81–83.
  • Harz, K. (1966) Neues von europäischen Orthopteren. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 25, 21–24.
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1990) The songs of the western European bush-crickets of the genus Platycleis in relation to their taxonomy (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 59(1), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41055755#page/3/mode/1up
  • Voisin, J.-F. (2003) Atlas des Orthoptères et des Mantides de France. Patrimoines Naturels, 60, 1–104.
  • Massa, B. & Fontana, P. (2011) Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837, 1–47. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02837p047.pdf
  • Hollier, J.A. & Bruckner, H. (2015) An annotated list of the orthopteroid insects described by Kurt Harz, with an account of the type specimens held in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 122(2), 185–200. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/274312#page/11/mode/1up
  • Barataud, J., Derreumaux, V. & Sardet, E. (2024) Étude taxonomique d'une espèce française oubliée : Platycleis waltheri Harz, 1966. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 29, 37–49.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the collector of the specimens.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1012