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Tessellana lagrecai Messina, 1979

Lagreca's Slender Bush-cricket; La Greca's Slender Bush-cricket

Nomenclature (6)

  • Tessellana lagrecai Messina, 1979: 161.

    Syntype; 30c66b99-5cbb-400d-9d0e-f2e180e8f463;

  • Platycleis (Tessellana) lagrecai (Messina, 1979) in Ragge, 1990: 9.
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  • Tessellana lagrecai Messina, 1979 in Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé, 2012: 225.
  • Tessellana lagrecai Messina, 1979 in Iorio, Scherini, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers, Odé & Massa, 2019: 75.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Iorio, C., Scherini, R., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C., Odé, B. & Massa, B. (2019) In Grasshoppers and Crickets of Italy: A photographic field guide to all the species. World Biodiversity Association. 577 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=iiXGDwAAQBAJ
  • La Greca, M. (1996) Storia biogeografica degli Ortotteri d'Italia: origine e distribuzione (Insecta, Orthoptera). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 20, 1–46.
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  • 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
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) In Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna. Vol. 48, 563 pp.
  • Messina, A. (1979) Tessellana lagrecai n. sp., nuova specie di ortottero di Sicilia (Orthoptera, Decticinae). Animalia (Catania), 5(1-3), 159–169.
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the Italian orthopterist Marcello La Greca (1914–2001).

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