subspecies
Ellipes minuta minuta (Scudder, 1862)
Minute Pygmy Locust
Nomenclature (43)
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862: 425.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Scudder, 1869: 82.
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- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Saussure, 1874: 353.
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896 in Gundlach, 1887: 148.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Brunner von Wattenwyl & Redtenbacher, 1892: 216.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893: 609.
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896: 207.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Scudder, 1902: 310.
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896 in Rehn, 1903: 32.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Rehn, 1903: 134.
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896 in Kirby, 1906: 11.
- Ellipes minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Kirby, 1906: 11.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Rehn, 1907: 212.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Rehn, 1907: 65.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Rehn & Hebard, 1912: 272.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Hebard, 1916: 21.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Rehn, 1917: 126.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Hebard, 1925: 303.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Hebard, 1928: 288.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Hebard, 1934: 258.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Hebard, 1935: 316.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Urquhart, 1940: 106.
- Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 in Vickery & Kevan, 1967: 41.
- Ellipes minutus floridanus Günther, 1977: 64.
Holotype; male; 296f2219-97bc-475a-a710-6296137d1e07; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States
- Ellipes minutus floridanus Günther, 1977 (unavailable or invalid, linked to Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862)
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896 (synonym of Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862) in Günther, 1977: 59.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Günther, 1977: 59.
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896 (synonym of Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862) in Günther, 1980: 161.
- Ellipes floridana Günther, 1977 in Günther, 1980: 163.
- Ellipes minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Günther, 1980: 162.
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896 (synonym of Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862) in Vickery & Kevan, 1986: 303.
- Ellipes minutus minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Vickery & Kevan, 1986: 303.
- Ellipes minutus minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Vickery & Scudder, 1987: 34.
- Ellipes minutus minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Maes, 1989: 52.
- Ellipes minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Vickery, 1991: 26.
- Ellipes minutus minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Günther, 1994: 13.
- Ellipes minutus minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Otte, 1997: 152.
- Ellipes minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Bland, 2003: 133.
- Ellipes minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 152, Plate 33.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Sheffield, Hiatt, Valentine, Song & Whiting, 2010
- Tridactylus histrio Saussure, 1896 (synonym of Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862) in Hollier & Heads, 2012: 156.
- Ellipes minutus minutus (Scudder, 1862) in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 490.
- Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862) in Woo, 2025: 467.
Nomenclature references (36)
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Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Reference to small body size.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| subspecies | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | |