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Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908) ✕

Lanzarote Sand Grasshopper
Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908): (Otu).
Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908): (Otu).
Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908): Fig. 4 B (reproduced with permission). pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1478671; 71a181d9-1d0b-4b53-a86d-42f1fc6b0d33: labels (type). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1478671; 71a181d9-1d0b-4b53-a86d-42f1fc6b0d33: female, dorsal view (type). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581158; 6db3cf33-c7c8-4b05-a400-4defd46cdaa6: female, labels (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581158; 6db3cf33-c7c8-4b05-a400-4defd46cdaa6: female, dorsal view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581158; 6db3cf33-c7c8-4b05-a400-4defd46cdaa6: female, lateral view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581160; 52e5a165-219f-40cc-91a0-bfff4b83da64: male, labels (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581160; 52e5a165-219f-40cc-91a0-bfff4b83da64: (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581160; 52e5a165-219f-40cc-91a0-bfff4b83da64: male, lateral view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581160; 52e5a165-219f-40cc-91a0-bfff4b83da64: male, head frontal view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581161; f9a78f8a-645e-440f-a983-1b4ab813f24a: female, labels (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581161; f9a78f8a-645e-440f-a983-1b4ab813f24a: female, dorsal view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581161; f9a78f8a-645e-440f-a983-1b4ab813f24a: female, lateral view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581161; f9a78f8a-645e-440f-a983-1b4ab813f24a: female, head frontal view (topotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (28)

  • Acridium asperum Brullé, 1840: 77.

    Syntype; female; 71a181d9-1d0b-4b53-a86d-42f1fc6b0d33; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN);

  • Acridium granulatum Brullé, 1840: 77.

    Syntype; 4c55aba7-8a05-400e-ad90-a5a08cf452f3;

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  • Fortunata pachecoi Bolívar, 1908 (subjective synonym of Acridium asperum Brullé, 1840) in Husemann & Hawlitschek, 2026
  • Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) asper (Brullé, 1840) in Husemann & Hawlitschek, 2026: 159.

Nomenclature references (19)

  • Benediktov, A.A. (2009) To the taxonomy and bioacoustics of grasshoppers of the genus Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 80(1), 21–33.
  • Bolivar, I. (1893) Viaje de M. Ch. Alluaud a las Islas Canarias. Actas de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 22, 45–53. Available at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/10523-redirection
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  • Bolívar, I. (1908) Algunos ortópteros nuevos de España, Marruecos y Canarias. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 8, 317–334. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18007#page/333/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1914) Dermápteros y ortópteros de Marruecos. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 8(5), 157–238. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1362
  • Brullé, G.A. (1840) Orthoptera. In Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries: Vol. 2(2). pp. 74–78. [1835] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/128816#page/508/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1943) Orthoptéroïdes de l'Afrique du Nord. In Faune de l'Empire Français. Lib. Larose, Paris. Vol. 1, 450 pp.
  • Chopard, L. (1954) Contributions entomologiques de l'expedition finlandaise aux Canaries 1947-1951. No. 7 Insectes Orthoptéroides récoltés aux iles Canaries par M. H. Lindberg. Commentationes Biologicae. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 14(7), 1–15.
  • Davey, J.T., Descamps, M. & Demange, R. (1959) Notes on the Acrididae of the French Sudan with special reference to the Central Niger Delta (I, II). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 21(1-2), 60–112, 565–600.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Herrera, L. (1982) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Spain. Series Entomologica, 22, 1–162.
  • Hochkirch, A. & Husemann, M. (2008) A review of the Canarian Sphingonotini with description of a new species from Fuerteventura (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Zoological Studies, 47(4), 495–506. Available at http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/47.4/495.pdf
  • Husemann, M. & Hawlitschek, O. (2026) Corrigendum: A new species of Sphingonotus (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) from the Salvage Islands with an updated list of taxa from the Macaronesian Islands. Contributions to Entomology 76(1): 125–131. Contributions to Entomology, 76(1), 159–160. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.76.e207042
  • Husemann, M., Deppermann, J. & Hochkirch, A. (2014) Multiple independent colonization of the Canary Islands by the winged grasshopper genus Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 81, 174–181.
  • Johnsen, P. (1985) Contributions to the knowledge of the genera Spingonotus, Pseudosphingonotus and Wernerella in Africa, with description of four new species (Acridoidea, Oedipodinae). Natura Jutlandica, 21(10), 149–167.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Scudder, S.H. (1901) Alphabetical index to North American Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 6, 1–436. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31824#page/15/mode/1up
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1936) Une excursion orthoptérologique aux îles Canaries. Natuurhistorisch Maandblad, 25(6), 40–42, 56–57, 72–73, 86–89, 101–103, 113–115. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1009136

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Etymology:

Dedicated to the Spanish geologist and paleontologist Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco (1872–1965) who studied the geology of the Canary Islands.

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