subspecies

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859)

American shieldback

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859): Pl. VI, Fig. 14 (specimen from North Carolina). male pronotum (outline of disc) and tegmina. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859): Pl. VI, Fig. 21 (specimen from North Carolina). male, internal distal spurs of hind tibia. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859): Pl. VII, Fig. 5 (specimen from New Jersey). male pronotum, lateral view. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859): Pl. VII, Fig. 14 (specimen from New Jersey). male left tegmen. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859): Pl. VII, Fig. 23 (specimen from New Jersey). left cercus of male. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859): Pl. VIII, Fig. 7 (specimen from New Jersey). ovipositor. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859): Pl. VIII, Fig. 15 (specimen from New Jersey). female subgenital plate. (Otu).

CollectionObject 1517126; b06a344d-517c-4280-9fb2-640decf47f49: female habitus, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1517126; b06a344d-517c-4280-9fb2-640decf47f49: female pronotum lateral (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1517126; b06a344d-517c-4280-9fb2-640decf47f49: female pronotum dorsal (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1517126; b06a344d-517c-4280-9fb2-640decf47f49: female ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1517126; b06a344d-517c-4280-9fb2-640decf47f49: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (19)

Orchesticus americanus Saussure, 1859: 201.
Holotype; female; f1f311ff-3c25-40bf-9f7d-27f5cd332acc; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); United States: Tennessee
Decticus derogatus Walker, 1869: 260.
Holotype; female; b06a344d-517c-4280-9fb2-640decf47f49; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); United States: Massachusetts
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Atlanticus americanus (Saussure, 1859) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 185.
Atlanticus americanus americanus (Saussure, 1859) in Hollier & Heads, 2015: 308.

Nomenclature references (16)

Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kaukerfe, Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte: Vulgo Orthoptera). In Handbuch der Entomologie. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. Vol. 2, Issue I-VIII, 397–756 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25467340#page/13/mode/1up
Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) In Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 249 pp.
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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

de Saussure, H. (1859) Orthoptera Nova Americana (Diagnoses praeliminares). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, 2(11), 201–212, 315–317, 390–394. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48711#page/205/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1934) Studies in Orthoptera which occur in North America north of the Mexican boundary. Part III. Revisionary data and new North American Decticinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 60(1), 31–55. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4270_001#page/34/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1938) When and where to find Orthoptera of Pennsylvania, with notes on the species which in distribution reach nearest this state (ctd. from vol. 48 p. 280). Entomological News, 49, 33–38, 97–103. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20211#page/449/mode/1up

Hollier, J.A. & Heads, S.W. (2015) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 6: The Rhaphidophoroidea, Stenopelmatoidea and Tettigonioidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 122(2), 307–323. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/274312#page/133/mode/1up

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

Morse, A.P. (1920) Manual of the Orthoptera of New England, including the locusts, grasshoppers, crickets and their allies. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 35(6), 197–556, 20 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=jf5RAAAAMAAJ

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1916) Studies in American Tettigoniidae VII, Atlanticus. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 42, 33–100, Pl. VI-VIII. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4252_001#mode/1up

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1916) Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of the coastal plains and piedmont region of the southeastern United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 68, 87–314. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79453#page/95/mode/1up

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

Tinkham, E.R. (1941) Zoogeographical notes on the genus Atlanticus with keys and descriptions of seven new Chinese species. Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise. Musée Heude, 8(5), 189–232, pls, figs, map.

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

Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1986) The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, 14, 1–918. Available at http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/aac-aafc/agrhist/A42-42-1985-14-eng.pdf
Walker, F. (1869) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 2, 225–423 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci02britrich

Descendants and synonyms

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