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Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877

Atlantic Grasshopper; Atlantic Locust
Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877: Fig. 121 a. male, dorsal view (body length 16-24 mm, hind femora 11-14 mm). (Otu).
Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877: Fig. 121 a. male, dorsal view (body length 16-24 mm, hind femora 11-14 mm). (Otu).
Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877: Fig. 121 b. female, dorsal view (body length 22-28 mm, hind femora 13-16 mm). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1524306; a5dbbd1c-52ad-4cc4-8eb8-9b39462cde67: Fig. 19. male hind leg. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (17)

  • Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877: 28.

    Holotype; male; a5dbbd1c-52ad-4cc4-8eb8-9b39462cde67; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Florida: Monroe: Key West

  • Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877 in Scudder, 1878: 88.
  • Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 139, Plate 30.
  • Paroxya atlantica Scudder, 1877 in Bateman & Fleming, 2011

References (17)

  • Scudder, S.H. (1877) A Century of Orthoptera, Decade VII, Acrydii. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 19, 27–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130632#page/39/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1878) The Florida Orthoptera collected by Mr. J. H. Comstock. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 19, 80–94. [1877] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130632#page/92/mode/1up
  • Fernald, C.H. (1888) The Orthoptera of New England. Wright & Potter Printing Company, Boston, 1–61 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35173
  • Beutenmüller, W. (1894) Descriptive catalogue of the Orthoptera found within fifty miles of New York City. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 6(Article XII), 253–316, plates V-X. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1570
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acrididae) with special reference to North American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 20(1124), 1–421. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/revisionoforthop00scudrich
  • Morse, A.P. (1904) Researches on North American Acrididae. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 18, 56 pp., 8 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Ub0GAAAAYAAJ
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1905) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of south and central Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 57, 29–55, Pl. 1. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30015
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1911) Preliminary studies of North Carolina Orthoptera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 62, 615–650. [1910] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84751#page/631/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) On the Orthoptera found on the Florida Keys and in extreme southern Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(2), 235–276. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17736#page/247/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1915) Dermaptera and Orthoptera found in the vicinity of Miami, Florida, in March, 1915 (Part I). Entomological News, 26, 397–408. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84799#page/437/mode/1up
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1920) Orthoptera of northeastern America with special reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, 781 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16768
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • Slifer, E.H. (1943) The internal genitalia of some previously unstudied species of female Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology (Philadelphia), 72(2), 225–237.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scherer, C.W. & Squitier, J.M. (2001) Grasshoppers of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 131 pp. Available at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/ghopper/ghopper.html
  • Squitier, J.M. & Capinera, J.L. (2002) Host selection by grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) inhabiting semi-aquatic environments. The Florida Entomologist, 85(2), 336–340.
  • 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.
  • Bateman, P.W. & Fleming, P.A. (2011) Failure to launch? The influence of limb autotomy on the escape behavior of a semiaquatic grasshopper Paroxya atlantica (Acrididae). Behavioral Ecology, 22(4), 763–768.

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