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Platycleis falx falx (Fabricius, 1775)

La Decticelle à serpe
Platycleis falx falx (Fabricius, 1775): male (Madeira, 5 August 2019). (Otu).
Platycleis falx falx (Fabricius, 1775): male (Madeira, 5 August 2019). (Otu).
Platycleis falx falx (Fabricius, 1775): female (Madeira, 5 August 2019). (Otu).

Nomenclature (14)

  • Locusta falx Fabricius, 1775: 286.

    Syntype; female; a0da5fc5-880f-45d4-8f8e-9c42faaae2ad; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Madeira

  • Conocephalus falx (Fabricius, 1775) in Thunberg, 1815: 273.
  • Platycleis falx (Fabricius, 1775) in Massa & Fontana, 2011: 6.
  • Platycleis falx (Fabricius, 1775) in Pina, Vasconcelos, Reino, Santana, Beja, Sánchez-Oliver, Catry, Moreira & Ferreira, 2017: 27.

References (14)

  • Fabricius, J.C. (1775) Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae, in officina libraria Kortii, 832 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1815) Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 5, 211–301. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5woZAAAAYAAJ
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1930) Notes on new or less-known Holartic Decticinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5(28), 400–405.
  • Chopard, L. (1932) Voyage de MM. L. Chopard et A. Mequignon aux Açores (août-septembre 1930) I. Orthoptères. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 101, 55–68. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5459051f/f65.item
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 91, 1–50, figs. 1–45.
  • Ramme, W. (1951) Zur Systematik, Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren von Südost-Europa und Vorderasien. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 27, 1–431.
  • Harz, K. (1966) Orthopterologische Beiträge VI. Nachrichtblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen, 15, 24–29. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/NachBlBayEnt_015_0024-0029.pdf
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Samways, M.J. (1976) Song modification in the Orthoptera. I. Proclamation song of Platycleis spp. Physiological Entomology, 1, 131–149.
  • Heller, K.-G. (1988) Bioakustik der europäischen Laubheuschrecken. In Ökologie in Forschung und Anwendung. J. Margraf, Weikersheim. Vol. 1, 1–358 pp.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1990) The songs of the western European bush-crickets of the genus Platycleis in relation to their taxonomy (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 59(1), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41055755#page/3/mode/1up
  • Voisin, J.-F. (2003) Atlas des Orthoptères et des Mantides de France. Patrimoines Naturels, 60, 1–104.
  • Massa, B. & Fontana, P. (2011) Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837, 1–47. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02837p047.pdf
  • Pina, S., Vasconcelos, S., Reino, L., Santana, J., Beja, P., Sánchez-Oliver, J.S., Catry, I., Moreira, F. & Ferreira, S. (2017) The Orthoptera of Castro Verde Special Protection Area (Southern Portugal): new data and conservation value. ZooKeys, ZooKeys(691), 19–48. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/14842/

Descendants and synonyms

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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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