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Species

Letana inflata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)

CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505851; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c: male, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (11)

  • Pyrrhicia inflata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 115, 116.

    Holotype; male; c1291be6-8b3b-49b0-9752-e943797fc56c; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Sri Lanka

  • Letana inflata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Bolívar, 1900: 763.
  • Letana inflata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Heller & Liu, 2015
  • Letana inflata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Lehmann, Heller & Mai, 2016

References (11)

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1878) Monographie der Phaneropteriden. K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Wien, Wien, 1–401, pl. 1–8. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37136#page/7/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1900) Les Orthoptères de St-Joseph's College à Trichinopoly (Sud de l'Inde). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 68, 761–812, pl. 11–12. [1899] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34583
  • 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
  • Chopard, L. (1924) The fauna of an island in the Chilka Lake. The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Barkuda Island. Records of the Indian Museum, 26, 165–191. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/02/0165-0191.pdf
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Some Orthoptera of the families Mantidae, Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 14(1), 85–114.
  • Ingrisch, S. (1990) Revision of the genus Letana Walker (Grylloptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropteride). Entomologica Scandinavica, 21(3), 241–276.
  • Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf
  • Hollier, J.A. & Maehr, M.D. (2012) An annotated catalogue of the type material of Orthoptera (Insecta) described by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl deposited in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(1), 27–75. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185302#page/29/mode/1up
  • Heller, K.-G. & Liu, C. (2015) Mating behavior of Letana inflata, a duetting Phaneropterine bush-cricket species with unusual male genitalic organs (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropteridae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 28, 513–524.
  • Nagar, R. & Swaminathan, R. (2015) Occurrence of a new species of Letana (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) in India. Zootaxa, 4044(3), 429–445.
  • Lehmann, G.U.C., Heller, K.-G. & Mai, R. (2016) Prolonged copulations as an alternative to male nuptial gift investment in the bushcricket Letana inflata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Journal of Ethology, 34(2), 191–194. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10164-016-0457-9

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