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Bufotettix alpha Caudell, 1918

Bufotettix alpha Caudell, 1918: left middle coxa, trochanter and base of femur, frontal view (redrawn after Nickle 2006). (Otu).
Bufotettix alpha Caudell, 1918: left middle coxa, trochanter and base of femur, frontal view (redrawn after Nickle 2006). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1533136; USNM 21327, 13ac44d0-4419-4de8-a72c-1eb6b0385d73: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1533136; USNM 21327, 13ac44d0-4419-4de8-a72c-1eb6b0385d73: male pronotum and right tegmen (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Bufotettix alpha Caudell, 1918: 26.

    Holotype; male; USNM 21327; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Peru: Junín

  • Bufotettix alpha Caudell, 1918 in Beier, 1954: 310.
  • Bufotettix alpha Caudell, 1918 in Nickle, 2006
  • Bufotettix alpha Caudell, 1918 in Braun, 2026: 444.

References (6)

  • 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.
  • Braun, H. (2026) Nomenclatural notes on a variety of Orthoptera II. Zootaxa, 5878(3), 442–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5878.3.8
  • Caudell, A.N. (1918) On a collection of Orthoptera (exclusive of the Locustidae) made in Central Peru by N. Iconnicoff & C. Schunke. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 6(1-3), 1–70. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34041#page/227/mode/1up
  • Nickle, D.A. (2006) Two new arboreal species of pseudophylline katydids from northern Peru (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(1), 31–36. https://doi.org/10.1665/1082-6467(2006)15[31:TNASOP]2.0.CO;2

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Etymology:

First letter of the Greek alphabet.

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