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Species

Montana barretii (Burr, 1912)

Madeiran Steppe Bush-cricket

Nomenclature (10)

  • Platycleis barretii Burr, 1912: 31.

    Syntype; male; 62e4b9b0-646d-4da1-a7ce-7cc658b3b6c0; deposited at: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUM); Portugal: Madeira: Gran Corral. Syntype; female; ea346e3d-10db-4b44-8cf2-902972dc2eb1; deposited at: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUM); Portugal: Madeira: Gran Corral

  • Metrioptera barretii (Burr, 1912) in Uvarov, 1937: 2.
  • Montana barretii (Burr, 1912) in Ivković, Iorgu, Horvat, Chobanov, Korsunovskaya & Heller, 2017: 537.
  • Metrioptera barretoi [sic] (Burr, 1912) (misspelling of Platycleis barretii Burr, 1912)

References (9)

  • Burr, M. (1912) The Orthoptera of Madeira. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 24, 29–33. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38235#page/46/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1937) Die Arthropodenfauna von Madeira nach den Ergebnissen der Reise von Prof. Dr. O. Lundblad Juli-August 1935. I. Orthoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi, 29(15), 6 pp.
  • Chopard, L. (1938) Les Dermaptères et Orthoptères de Madère. Revue Française d'Entomologie, 4, 219–239. [1937]
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 91, 1–50, figs. 1–45.
  • Gardner, A.E. & Classey, E.W. (1960) Report on the insects collected by the E.W. Classey and R.E. Gardner expedition to Madeira in December 1957. Part 1. Proceedings of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society, 1959, 184–206.
  • Fernandes, J.A. (1972) Notas sobre ortopteróides do Arquipélago da Madeira. Arquivos do Museu Bocage, 3(9), 305–318. Available at http://digital.museus.ul.pt/items/show/2595
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ivković, S., Iorgu, I.S., Horvat, L., Chobanov, D.P., Korsunovskaya, O. & Heller, K.-G. (2017) New data on the bush-cricket Montana medvedevi (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), critically endangered in Europe (EU 28), and a comparison of its song with all known song patterns within the genus. Zootaxa, 4263(3), 527–542.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Dedicated to Father Jayme de Gouvêa Barreto, the genial curator of the most interesting museum, founded by Father Schmitz, in the Seminario in Funchal.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045