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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Sigaus nitidus (Hutton, 1898)

Nomenclature (14)

  • Paprides nitidus Hutton, 1898: 146.

    Syntype; female; 38ead703-62f9-4999-9890-4f0f257f81a7; deposited at: Canterbury Museum (CMNZ); New Zealand: Nelson: Nelson, Dun Mountain

  • Paprides nitidus Hutton, 1898: 46.
  • Sigaus nitidus (Hutton, 1898) in Trewick, Koot & Morgan-Richards, 2023: 236.
  • Paprides nitidus Hutton, 1898 in Meza-Joya, Morgan-Richards & Koot, 2023

References (12)

  • Hutton, F.W. (1898) Notes on the New Zealand Acridiae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 31, 44–50. Available at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_31/rsnz_31_00_000860.html
  • Hutton, F.W. (1898) The grasshoppers and locusts of New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 30, 135–150. [1897] Available at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_30/rsnz_30_00_000940.html#n158
  • 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
  • Bigelow, R.S. (1967) Grasshoppers of New Zealand.
  • Hudson, L. (1970) Identification of the immature stages of New Zealand alpine acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 12(17), 185–208.
  • White, E.G. & Watson, R.N. (1972) A food consumption study of three New Zealand alpine grasshopper species. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 15, 867–877. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=iNg3AAAAIAAJ
  • White, E.G. (1974) A quantitative biology of three New Zealand apline grasshopper species. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 17, 207–228. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=b-03AAAAIAAJ
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • White, E.G. & Sedcole, J.R. (1991) A 20-year record of alpine grasshopper abundance, with interpretations for climate change. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 15(2), 139–152.
  • Meza-Joya, F.L., Morgan-Richards, M. & Trewick, S.A. (2022) Relationships among body size components of three flightless New Zealand grasshopper species (Orthoptera, Acrididae) and their ecological applications. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 31(1), 91–103. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/79819/
  • Trewick, S.A., Koot, E.M. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2023) Māwhitiwhiti Aotearoa: Phylogeny and synonymy of the silent alpine grasshopper radiation of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zootaxa, 5383(2), 225–241. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5383.2.7
  • Meza-Joya, F.L., Morgan-Richards, M. & Koot, E.M. (2023) Global warming leads to habitat loss and genetic erosion of alpine biodiversity. Journal of Biogeography.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin for handsome or beautiful.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023