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Tessellana nigrosignata (Costa, 1863)

Black-marked Bush-cricket; Black-marked Slender Bush-cricket

Nomenclature (26)

  • Decticus (Platycleis) nigrosignatus Costa, 1863: 30.

    Syntype; c977112d-5d80-4c33-940e-6dab2634c45d; Italy: Calabria

  • Platycleis nigrosignata (Costa, 1863) in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882: 351.
  • Tessellana nigrosignata (Costa, 1863) in Iorio, Scherini, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers, Odé & Massa, 2019: 75, 176.
  • Platycleis (Tessellana) nigrosignata (Costa, 1863) in Ünal, 2025: 38.

References (26)

  • Costa, A. (1863) Nuovi studii sulla entomologia della Calabria Ulteriore. Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze Fiziche e Matematiche, Napoli, 1(2), 1–80, pls 1–4. [in Italian] Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/182057#page/69/mode/1up
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1882) Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren. Engelmann, Leipzig, XXXII + 466 pp., XI tab. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/publikation_volumes.php?id=35024
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1900) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren (Ohrwürmer und Geradflügler) von Österreich-Ungarn und Deutschland. Wien, 148 pp. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MON-E-ORTH_0004_0001-0148.pdf
  • Jacobson, G.G. & Bianchi, V.L. (1905) Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg, i–xii, 1–952, pls 1–25. [1902]
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Burr, M. (1907) Synopsis of the Orthoptera of western Europe (continued from vol. 18, p. 329). The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 19, 18–21, 37–39, 68–71, 115–119, 137–142, 167–171, 237–239, 298–301. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36042#page/28/mode/1up
  • Karny, H.H. (1907) Die Orthopterenfauna des Küstengebietes von Österreich-Ungarn. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 52, 17–52, figs. 1–7. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35140#page/91/mode/1up
  • Caudell, A.N. (1908) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 72, 1–43 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105244#page/339/mode/1up
  • Ebner, R. (1910) Ein Beitrag zur Orthopterenfauna der europäischen Türkei mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Albanien (Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Nord-Albanien, A. Klaptocz, 1909.). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 29, 401–414. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/87994#page/419/mode/1up
  • Ramme, W. (1926) Neue und wenig bekannte europäische und asiatische Orthopteren (Acrid., Tettigon.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1926, 273–289.
  • 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.
  • Ramme, W. (1951) Zur Systematik, Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren von Südost-Europa und Vorderasien. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 27, 1–431.
  • Beier, M. (1955) Die jugoslawischen Arten der Platycleidini (Orthoptera-Tettigoniidae-Decticinae). Academia Scientiarum Et Artium Slovenica: Razprave Dissertationes, 3, 211–252.
  • 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
  • Ünal, M. (1999) Notes on Orthoptera of western Turkey, with description of a new genus and four new species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 8, 243–255.
  • Çıplak, B., Heller, K.-G. & Demirsoy, A. (2002) Review and key to species of Platycleis from Turkey (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with descriptions of Yalvaciana subgen. n. and two new species. Journal of Natural History, 36 (2), 197–236.
  • Nagy, B. (2005) Orthoptera fauna of the Carpathian basin - recent status of knowledge and a revised checklist. Entomofauna Carpathica, 17, 14–22.
  • Ünal, M. (2006) Kirikkale Orthopterlerinin fauna ekoloji ve taksonomisi Üzerine Arastirmalar. Priamus, 3, 1–51.
  • Chobanov, D.P. (2009) New records and a new synonym of Orthoptera from Bulgaria. Articulata, 24(1/2), 79–108. Available at http://dgfo-articulata.de/downloads/articulata/articulata_XXIV_2009/chobanov_2009.pdf
  • 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
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna, Vol. 48, 563 pp.
  • Skejo, J., Rebrina, F., Szövényi, G., Puskás, G. & Tvrtković, N. (2018) The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera). Zootaxa, 4533(1), 1–95.
  • Ünal, M. (2018) Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Turkey with key to genera and descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa, 4432(1), 1–66.
  • Iorio, C., Scherini, R., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C., Odé, B. & Massa, B. (2019) Grasshoppers and Crickets of Italy: A photographic field guide to all the species. World Biodiversity Association, 577 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=iiXGDwAAQBAJ
  • Ünal, M. (2025) Taxonomic notes on Phaneropterinae and Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Palaearctic Region. Zootaxa, 5687(1), 1–77. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5687.1.1

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