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Alticolana alticola (Tarbinsky, 1930)

Alticolana alticola (Tarbinsky, 1930): female, lateral view (paratype). (Otu).
Alticolana alticola (Tarbinsky, 1930): female, lateral view (paratype). (Otu).
Alticolana alticola (Tarbinsky, 1930): ovipositor (paratype). (Otu).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Metrioptera alticola Tarbinsky, 1930: 331.

    Holotype; individual; b4ad59b8-3880-42df-b123-f08d66309637; Turkestan: Ferghana, Arslan-Bob

  • Alticolana alticola (Tarbinsky, 1930) in Zeuner, 1941: 35.
  • Alticolana alticola (Tarbinsky, 1930) in Warchalowska-Sliwa, 1998: 164.
  • Alticolana alticola (Tarbinsky, 1930) in Massa & Fontana, 2011: 13.

References (6)

  • Tarbinsky, S.P. (1930) Neue und wenig bekannte Orthopteren des paläarktischen Asiens. IV. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 91, 324–336.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin for highland inhabitor.

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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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Species1023