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Ancistrocercus (Ancistrocercus) inficitus (Walker, 1870)

CollectionObject 1516950; 6da22c44-4fc0-4242-bb94-34c50d4655fe: male (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516950; 6da22c44-4fc0-4242-bb94-34c50d4655fe: male (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516950; 6da22c44-4fc0-4242-bb94-34c50d4655fe: left mirror area (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516950; 6da22c44-4fc0-4242-bb94-34c50d4655fe: mirror (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516950; 6da22c44-4fc0-4242-bb94-34c50d4655fe: male head, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516950; 6da22c44-4fc0-4242-bb94-34c50d4655fe: male cerci (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520631; 64a1dcd1-fe28-4d18-b021-7d0e0d230af8: female ovipositor (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520631; 64a1dcd1-fe28-4d18-b021-7d0e0d230af8: female head and pronotum, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520631; 64a1dcd1-fe28-4d18-b021-7d0e0d230af8: female (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531761; 28fc5c75-e08b-49f3-8427-feaf0416c38c: male, lateral view (syntype of Gongrocnemis accola). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (11)

  • Meroncidius inficitus Walker, 1870: 447.

    Syntype; male; 6da22c44-4fc0-4242-bb94-34c50d4655fe; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Guatemala: "Probably Guatemala". Syntype; female; 64a1dcd1-fe28-4d18-b021-7d0e0d230af8; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Guatemala: "Probably Guatemala"

  • Gongrocnemis accola Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895: 167.

    Syntypes (n= 2); female; 76383da4-6efc-4459-ab40-e45d73f96388; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Guatemala. Syntype; male; 28fc5c75-e08b-49f3-8427-feaf0416c38c; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); Guatemala

  • Ancistrocercus (Ancistrocercus) inficitus (Walker, 1870) in Beier, 1963: 117.
  • Gongrocnemis accola Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 (subjective synonym of Meroncidius inficitus Walker, 1870) in Hollier & Maehr, 2012: 29.

References (8)

  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1895) Monographie der Pseudophylliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 45, 1–282. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MON-E-ORTH_0007_0001-0282.pdf
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de & Pictet, A. (1898) Insecta Orthoptera (Orthoptera Genuina). Fam. Locustidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1, 345–456. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm
  • 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
  • Beier, M. (1954) Revision der Pseudophyllinen. Instituto Español de Entomología, Madrid, 479 pp.
  • Beier, M. (1962) Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae I). Das Tierreich, 73, 1–468.
  • Beier, M. (1963) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Pseudophyllinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 5, 1–246 pp.
  • 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

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