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Species

Aglaothorax morsei (Caudell, 1907)

Morse’s Shieldback
Aglaothorax morsei (Caudell, 1907): Above: Calling song of A. morsei, Los Angeles County, California, 5 s window showing one echeme consisting of 15 pulse trains; Below: spectrogram of echeme's above ultrasonic frequencies beyond human hearing range lie above white dashed line, warmer colors indicate higher sound energy, most of which is ultrasonic. (Otu).
Aglaothorax morsei (Caudell, 1907): Above: Calling song of A. morsei, Los Angeles County, California, 5 s window showing one echeme consisting of 15 pulse trains; Below: spectrogram of echeme's above ultrasonic frequencies beyond human hearing range lie above white dashed line, warmer colors indicate higher sound energy, most of which is ultrasonic. (Otu).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Neduba morsei Caudell, 1907: 301.

    Holotype; male; 5a1436ce-17fb-4117-99ea-a379024bfae6; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: California: Los Angeles: Mount Wilson

  • Neduba morsei Caudell, 1907 in Caudell & Hebard, 1912: 164.
  • Aglaothorax morsei morsei (Caudell, 1907) in Otte, 1997: 262.
  • Aglaothorax morsei (Caudell, 1907) in Cole, Weissman, Lightfoot, Ueshima & Warchalowska-Sliwa, 2025: 39.

References (8)

  • Caudell, A.N. (1907) The Decticinae (a group of Orthoptera) of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 32, 285–410. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53434#page/363/mode/1up
  • Caudell, A.N. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of the single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64, 157–168. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17736#page/169/mode/1up
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1944) Biological, taxonomic and faunistic studies on the shield-backed katydids of the North American deserts. The American Midland Naturalist, 31(2), 257–328. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s104lt44.pdf
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Birchim, J.D. (1968) Revisionary studies in the Nearctic Decticinae. Memoirs of the Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 3, 1–173. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s104lrb68.pdf
  • Otte, D. (1979) The primary types of Orthoptera (Saltatoria, Blattodea, Phasmatodea, and Mantodea) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 130, 26–87. [1978]
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Weissman, D.B. (1981) Faunal affinities, systematics, and bionomics of the Orthoptera of the California Channel Islands. University of California Publications in Entomology, 94, vii-xiii, 1–240. Available at https://orthsoc.org/sina/i00lrw81.pdf
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Cole, J.A., Weissman, D.B., Lightfoot, D.C., Ueshima, N. & Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (2025) A revision of the shield-backed katydid genus Aglaothorax (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Nedubini). Zootaxa, 5667(1), 1–104. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5667.1.1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

In honor of the collector of the holotype Prof. A.P. Morse, of Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045