Orthoptera Species File
species

Acrodectes philopagus Rehn & Hebard, 1920

alpine shieldback
Acrodectes philopagus Rehn & Hebard, 1920: male (ca. 1965). (Otu).
Acrodectes philopagus Rehn & Hebard, 1920: male (ca. 1965). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522393; 33b3d28b-24d8-42b3-b7cb-eebd8a46d291: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522393; 33b3d28b-24d8-42b3-b7cb-eebd8a46d291: male, pronotum and tegmina (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522393; 33b3d28b-24d8-42b3-b7cb-eebd8a46d291: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1595938; a947ef2b-9144-43c4-880b-0bb63c97cea5: female, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Acrodectes philopagus Rehn & Hebard, 1920: 259.

    Holotype; male; 33b3d28b-24d8-42b3-b7cb-eebd8a46d291; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: California: Inyo: Mt. Whitney

  • Acrodectes philopagus Rehn & Hebard, 1920 in Chopard, 1928: 143, 144.
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  • Acrodectes philopagus Rehn & Hebard, 1920 in Gurney & Liebermann, 1975: 106.
  • Acrodectes philopagus Rehn & Hebard, 1920 in Rentz, 1985: 307.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Chopard, L. (1928) La faune des Orthoptères des montagnes des Etats-Unis et ses rapports avec la faune paléarctique. In Contribution à l'étude du peuplement des hautes montagnes. Societé de Biogéographie, Paris. Vol. 2, 142–149. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64170790/f150.image
  • Gurney, A.B. & Liebermann, J. (1975) A new species of shield-backed katydid from Cerro Aconcagua, Argentina, with notes on other species and their habitats (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Decticinae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 65(3), 102–107.
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  • Mani, M.S. (1968) In Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects. Junk. N.V. Publishers / Springer. 527 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=n4qSTCkniZoC
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1920) Descriptions of new genera and species of North American Decticinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 46(3), 225–265. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4256_003#page/9/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
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1985) The Tettigoniinae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 1, i-ix, 1–384.
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1944) Biological, taxonomic and faunistic studies on the shield-backed katydids of the North American deserts. The American Midland Naturalist, 31(2), 257–328. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s104lt44.pdf

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