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Paracyrtophyllus excelsus (Rehn & Hebard, 1914)

Chisos katydid
Paracyrtophyllus excelsus (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): male subgenital plate and cercus. (Otu).
Paracyrtophyllus excelsus (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): male subgenital plate and cercus. (Otu).
Paracyrtophyllus excelsus (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female habitus. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522311; 54ca5cb1-c42d-4454-b0b3-b87a345e716d: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522311; 54ca5cb1-c42d-4454-b0b3-b87a345e716d: male stridulatory apparatus, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Pterophylla excelsa Rehn & Hebard, 1914: 293.

    Holotype; male; 54ca5cb1-c42d-4454-b0b3-b87a345e716d; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Brewster: Chisos Mountains, canyon behind Pulliam Bluffs

  • Paracyrtophyllus excelsus (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Hebard, 1941: 203.
  • Paracyrtophyllus excelsus (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Beier, 1963: 200.
  • Paracyrtophyllus excelsus (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Rivera García, 2006: 143.

References (6)

  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1914) A new species of true katydid from western Texas (Orthop.: Tettig.). Entomological News, 25, 293–295.
  • Hebard, M. (1941) The Group Pterophyllae as found in the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 67, 197–219. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4277_002#page/67/mode/1up
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. The American Midland Naturalist, 40, 521–663. [1949]
  • Beier, M. (1960) Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae II). Das Tierreich, 74, 1–396.
  • Beier, M. (1963) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Pseudophyllinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 5, 1–246 pp.
  • Rivera García, E. (2006) An annotated checklist of some orthopteroid insects of Mapimi Biosphere Reserve (Chihuahuan desert), Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, nueva serie, 22(3), 131–149. Available at http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57522311

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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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