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Species

Semenoviana tamerlana (Saussure, 1874)

CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, in drawer (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, terminalia, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #2, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, pronotum, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, terminalia, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, terminalia, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #2, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #2, terminalia, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, wings, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475708; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400: Male, #1, head, anterior view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, pronotum, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, terminalia, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, head, anterior view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, terminalia, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, terminalia, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (15)

  • Decticus (Platycleis) tamerlanus Saussure, 1874: 46.

    Syntypes (n= 2); male; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Kazakhstan: Perovsk, Syr Darya River. Syntypes (n= 2); female; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Kazakhstan: Perovsk, Syr Darya River

  • Platycleis tamerlana (Saussure, 1874) in Jacobson & Bianchi, 1905: 413.
  • Semenoviana tamerlana (Saussure, 1874) in Massa & Fontana, 2011: 10.
  • Semenoviana tamerlana (Saussure, 1874) in Hollier & Heads, 2015: 319.

References (13)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1874) Orthoptères. In: Voyage au Turkestan de A.P. Fedtschenko. Tome II, recherches zoogéographiques, Vme partie. Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. Antrop. Ethnogr. Univ. Moscou, 11, 1–52.
  • Jacobson, G.G. & Bianchi, V.L. (1905) Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg, i–xii, 1–952, pls 1–25. [1902]
  • 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
  • Caudell, A.N. (1908) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 72, 1–43 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105244#page/339/mode/1up
  • Pylnov, E. (1911) Orthoptères de la province de Semiretshje. Mantodea, Phasmatodea, Locustodea et Gryllodea. Russkoe Entomologischeskoe Obozrenie, 11, 363–373. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44809#page/401/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1912) Contribution à la faune des orthoptères du Turkestan. Russkoe Entomologischeskoe Obozrenie, 12, 207–215. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45912#page/257/mode/1up
  • Tarbinsky, S.P. (1930) Neue und wenig bekannte Orthopteren des paläarktischen Asiens. IV. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 91, 324–336.
  • Mistshenko, L. (1937) Some data on the fauna: Blattodea, Mantodea, Phasmodea and Orthoptera of North Afghanistan. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 39, 796–811. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47591295#page/466/mode/1up
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Tamerlane is a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia.

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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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RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1067