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Cladonotus humbertianus Saussure, 1862

decurved Sri-Lankan twighopper
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506051; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9: male, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (12)

  • Cladonotus humbertianus Saussure, 1862: 478.

    Syntype; male; bcb82a0a-408d-4539-a43e-3a00971f2dd9; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Sri Lanka: Kandy: Peradeniya

  • Cladonotus humbertianus Saussure, 1862 in Hancock, 1904: 113.
  • Cladonotus humbertianus Saussure, 1862 in Bhaskar, Stermšek, Easa, Franjević & Skejo, 2020: 483.
  • Cladonotus humbertianus Saussure, 1862 in Tumbrinck, 2026: 404.

References (12)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1862) Etudes sur quelques orthoptères du Musée de Genève. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 1, 469–494. [1861] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34164
  • Hancock, J.L. (1904) The Tettigidae of Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 2, 97–157.
  • Hancock, J.L. (1907) Orthoptera Fam. Acridiidae. Subfam. Tetriginae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 48, 1–79 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105990#page/23/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Kirby, W.F. (1914) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London, 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Hancock, J.L. (1915) V. Indian Tetriginae (Acrydiinae). Records of the Indian Museum, 11, 55–137. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41760#page/91/mode/1up
  • Sandrasagara, T.R. (1949) A catalogue of the named Ceylonese Tetrigidae, Eumastacidae and Acrididae (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the collection of the Colombo Museum, with records of distribution. Records of the Indian Museum, 47, 135–157. [1950]
  • Blackith, R.E. (1992) Tetrigidae (Insecta; Orthoptera) of Southeast Asia: Annotated catalogue with partial translated keys and bibliography. JAPAGA, Wicklow, Ireland, i-liv, 1–248.
  • Hollier, J.A. (2013) 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 4: The Acridomorpha excluding the superfamily Acridoidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(2), 203–219. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/203304#page/33/mode/1up
  • Bhaskar, D., Stermšek, S., Easa, P.S., Franjević, D. & Skejo, J. (2020) Wide-nosed pygmy grasshoppers (Cladonotinae: Cladonotini, Xerophyllini) of India and Sri Lanka: catalogue with an identification key and description of a new species of the genus Tettilobus. Zootaxa, 4894(3), 474–500.
  • Tumbrinck, J., Deranja, M., Adžić, K., Pavlović, M. & Skejo, J. (2020) Cockscomb-shaped twighopper, Cladonotus bhaskari sp. n., a new and rare pygmy grasshopper species from Sri Lanka (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae). Zootaxa, 4821(2), 333–342.
  • Tumbrinck, J. (2026) Review of all Tetrigidae species described from 1758 to 1886. Zootaxa, 5845(3), 401–455. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.1

Descendants and synonyms

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Etymology:

After the Swiss naturalist Aloïs Humbert (1829–1887) who collected the specimens.

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