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Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920

Armored Shieldback
Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920: female, lateral view (allotype). (Otu).
Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920: female, lateral view (allotype). (Otu).
Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920: female, dorsal view (allotype). (Otu).
Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920: calling song TOPOTYPE USA.NV: Clark Co. 18.1ºC JCR230609_004. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522381; 7470f697-40b6-401c-ad62-caee108bced2: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522381; 7470f697-40b6-401c-ad62-caee108bced2: male head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920: 229.

    Holotype; male; 7470f697-40b6-401c-ad62-caee108bced2; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Nevada: Clark: Charleston Mts., Lee Canyon

  • Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920 in Tinkham, 1944: 292.
  • Neduba (Aglaothorax) ovata armiger (Rehn & Hebard, 1920) in Warchalowska-Sliwa, 1998: 164.
  • Aglaothorax armiger Rehn & Hebard, 1920 in Cole, Weissman, Lightfoot, Ueshima & Warchalowska-Sliwa, 2025: 30.

References (8)

  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1920) Descriptions of new genera and species of North American Decticinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 46(3), 225–265. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4256_003#page/9/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
  • Rivers, I.L. (1948) A synopsis of Nevada Orthoptera. The American Midland Naturalist, 39, 652–720.
  • 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
  • Ueshima, N. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1979) Chromosome systems in the North American Decticinae with reference to Robertsonian changes (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Cytologia, 44(3), 693–714. Available at http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cytologia1929/44/3/44_3_693/_pdf/-char/ja
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (1998) Karyotype characteristics of katydid orthopterans (Ensifera, Tettigoniidae), and remarks on their evolution at different taxonomic levels. Folia Biologica (Kraków), 46, 143–176.
  • 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:

Bearing a shield, in allusion to the pronotal disk.

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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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