species

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901)

Short-legged Shield-bearer; Protean Shieldback

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): habitus, lateral view (not a type). (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VI, Fg. 2 (specimen from Pennsylvania). male, pronotum (outline of disc) and tegmina. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VI, Fig. 3 (specimen from Pennsylvania). female pronotum (outline of disc). (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VI, Fig. 20 (specimen from Pennsylvania). female, internal distal spurs of hind tibia. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VII, Fig. 1 (specimen from Pennsylvania). male pronotum, lateral view. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VII, Fig. 10 (specimen from Pennsylvania). male left tegmen. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VII, Fig. 19 (specimen from Pennsylvania). left cercus of male. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VIII, Fig. 1 (specimen from Pennsylvania). ovipositor. (Otu).

Atlanticus (Atlanticus) testaceus (Scudder, 1901): Pl. VIII, Fig. 11 (specimen from Pennsylvania). female subgenital plate. (Otu).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 3f4c937a-5bef-41fd-a3dd-96a40e87aa56; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Missouri

Nomenclature (18)

Engoniaspis testacea Scudder, 1901: 96. (valid)
Holotype; female; 3f4c937a-5bef-41fd-a3dd-96a40e87aa56; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Missouri
Engoniaspis testacea Scudder, 1901 in Kirby, 1906: 181.
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Atlanticus testaceus (Scudder, 1901) in Warchalowska-Sliwa, 1998: 167.
Atlanticus testaceus (Scudder, 1901) in Bland, 2003: 171.

Nomenclature references (18)

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Cantrall, I.J. (1943) The ecology of the Orthoptera and Dermaptera of the George Reserve, Michigan. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 54, 1–184. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56299
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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

Gangwere, S.K. (1967) The feeding behavior of Atlanticus testaceus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 60, 74–81. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s104lg67.pdf

Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321

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

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

Scudder, S.H. (1901) Catalogue of the described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 8, 1–102, plates I-III. [1899]

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.

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

Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1967) Records of the orthopteroid insects in Ontario. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 97, 13–68. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/139986#page/423/mode/1up

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, T.J. (1975) Effects of temperature, humidity and age on stridulatory rates in Atlanticus spp. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Decticinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 68(3), 607–611. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s104lw75.pdf
Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (1998) Karyotype characteristics of katydid orthopterans (Ensifera, Tettigoniidae), and remarks on their evolution at different taxonomic levels. Folia biologica (Krakow), 46, 143–176.