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Tetticerus bigibbosus Hancock, 1900

Big Horned Pygmy Grasshopper
CollectionObject 1571800; 98e8a346-6dc6-445c-a216-2b0abb9a4111: (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571800; 98e8a346-6dc6-445c-a216-2b0abb9a4111: (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585241; ad993950-03e7-4e9c-9230-bf93572c3cb6: female, paratype (lateral view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585241; ad993950-03e7-4e9c-9230-bf93572c3cb6: female, paratype (lateral view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585241; ad993950-03e7-4e9c-9230-bf93572c3cb6: female, paratype (dorsal view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585241; ad993950-03e7-4e9c-9230-bf93572c3cb6: female, paratype (frontal view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585241; ad993950-03e7-4e9c-9230-bf93572c3cb6: paratype (labels). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585242; 32352b98-c3cd-4736-b006-f2edac3b2f2b: male, paratype (lateral view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585242; 32352b98-c3cd-4736-b006-f2edac3b2f2b: male, paratype (lateral view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585242; 32352b98-c3cd-4736-b006-f2edac3b2f2b: male, paratype (dorsal view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585242; 32352b98-c3cd-4736-b006-f2edac3b2f2b: male, paratype (frontal view). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585242; 32352b98-c3cd-4736-b006-f2edac3b2f2b: paratype (labels). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Tetticerus bigibbosus Hancock, 1900: 3. (valid)

    Syntype; female; 8f4a1586-ee20-476c-bc33-34d989013a74; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Madagascar: Toamasina: Antongil Bay. Syntype; female; ad993950-03e7-4e9c-9230-bf93572c3cb6; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Madagascar: Toamasina: Antongil Bay. Syntype; male; 32352b98-c3cd-4736-b006-f2edac3b2f2b; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Madagascar: Toamasina: Antongil Bay

  • Tetticerus bigibbosus Hancock, 1900 in Hancock, 1907: 39.
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  • Pterotettix bigibbosus (Hancock, 1900) in Hollier & Heads, 2014: 70.
  • Tetticerus bigibbosus Hancock, 1900 in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 232.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Bruner, L. (1910) Acridoidea from Madagascar, Comoro Islands and Eastern Africa. Voeltzkow Reise, 2, 623–644. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41901484#page/481/mode/1up
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., Infante, I.C., Silva, D.S.M. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa, 5597(1), 1–265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5597.1.1
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  • Günther, K. (1939) Revision der Acrydiinae (Orthoptera), III. Sectio Amorphopi (Metrodorae Bol. 1887, aut.). Abhandlungen und Berichte aus den Staatlichen Museen für Tierkunde und Völkerkunde in Dresden (Ser. A: Zool.) (N.F.), 20 (NF Bd.1), 16–335.
  • Günther, K. (1974) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Tetrigiodea (Orth. Caelifera) von Madagaskar und von Mauritius. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris (Zoologie 3e serie), 236 (Zool. 160), 937–1031. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/260408#page/3/mode/1up
  • Hancock, J.L. (1900) Some new Tettigidae from Madgascar. Occasional Memoirs of the Chicago Entomological Society, 1, 1–15. Available at http://archive.org/details/occasionalmemoi00westgoog
  • 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
  • Hancock, J.L. (1907) Studies of the Tetriginae (Orthoptera) in the Oxford University Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1907, 213–244, pl. 21. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48288#page/425/mode/1up
  • Hollier, J.A. & Heads, S.W. (2014) The type specimens of Orthoptera described by American entomologists in the collection of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 121(1), 63–76. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/221120#page/65/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1979) The primary types of Orthoptera (Saltatoria, Blattodea, Phasmatodea, and Mantodea) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 130, 26–87. [1978]
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1930) New and little known Madagascar grouse-locusts (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Acrydiinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 477–519. [1929]

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Latin gibbosus, humped, relating to the two humps of the pronotum

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