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Species

Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889

Texas Short-Wing; Slant-faced Grasshopper
Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889: male habitus. (Otu).
Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889: male habitus. (Otu).
Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889: Fig. 60. head and pronotum, pattern variation. (Otu).
Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889: Fig. 29C. pronotum disk. (Otu).
Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889: distribution. (Otu).

Nomenclature (12)

  • Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889: 56.
  • Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889 in McNeill, 1897: 218, 220.
  • Mesochlora [sic] unicolor Hart, 1906 (synonym of Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889) in Otte, 1995: 160.
  • Eritettix abortivus Bruner, 1889 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 65, Plate 2.

References (11)

  • Bruner, L. (1889) New North American Acrididae, found North of the Mexican boundary. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 12, 47–82. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53609#page/63/mode/1up
  • McNeill, J. (1897) Revision of the Truxalinae of North America. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 6, 179–274. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49878#page/195/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1898) A preliminary classfication of the Tryxalinae of the United States and Canada. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 8, 231–239. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12123166
  • Hart, C.A. (1906) Notes of a winter trip to Texas, with an annotated list of the Orthoptera. Entomological News, 17, 154–160. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2562864
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(1), 60–128. Available at http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca64acad/page/60/mode/2up
  • Frison, T.H. (1927) A list of the insect types in the collection of the Illinois State Natural History Survey and the Univ. of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 16(4), 137–309. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15508853
  • Jago, N.D. (1971) A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world with a key to the genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 123, 205–343. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=ELz9FCjoVVkC
  • Webb, D.W. (1980) Primary Insect Types in the Illinois Natural History Survey Collection, Exclusive of the Collembola and Thysanoptera. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 32(2), 55–191. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14798686
  • Otte, D. (1981) Acrididae: Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 1, 274 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 249 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1034