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Metrodora rana Bolívar, 1887

CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male, lateral habitus. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male, lateral habitus. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male, dorsal habitus. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male, frons. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male, antennae. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male, fore femur. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male, mid femur. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male postabdomen, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male postabdomen, axial view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Male postabdomen, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2260458; e15e9e13-3248-4cd2-baa7-9ce99da7c1fa: Specimen labels. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (13)

  • Metrodora rana Bolívar, 1887: 248.

    Holotype; male; 681afc4d-5234-419d-a1a9-a3ae6f1dece2; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Peru: Loreto: Alto Amazonas

  • Metrodora rana Bolívar, 1887 in Giglio-Tos, 1898: 35.
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  • Metrodora rana Bolívar, 1887 in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 15.
  • Metrodora rana Bolívar, 1887 in Cadena-Castañeda, Moreno Alvarez, Quintana-Arias, García García & Tavares, 2025: 353.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Bolívar, I. (1887) Essai sur les Acridiens de la tribu des Tettigidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 31, 175–313. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44636#page/675/mode/1up
  • Bruner, L. (1910) South American Tetrigidae. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 7, 89–143. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38116#page/151/mode/1up
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  • Buzzetti, F.M. & Carotti, G. (2008) Annotated list of the Caelifera of Ecuador (Biodiversity of South America). Memoirs on Biodiversity, 39–66.
  • Buzzetti, F.M. & Devriese, H. (2007) Tetrigidae from Ecuador (Orthoptera Caelifera Tetrigoidea). Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, 7, 41–54. Available at https://heyjoe.fbk.eu/index.php/atagb/article/view/5435
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Moreno Alvarez, E.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., García García, A. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: Redescription of the male and description of the female of Metrodora rana Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with new records to Colombia and Brazil. Zootaxa, 5633(2), 351–363. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.7
  • 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
  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1898) Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nella Republica dell'Ecuador et regioni vicine. VI. Ortotteri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 13(311), 1–108. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42045#page/9/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Hebard, M. (1924) Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Ecuador. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 76, 109–248.
  • 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
  • Liebermann, J. (1955) Primeira relação sistemática dos Acridoideos do Brasil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 53(2-4), 329–344. Available at http://www.scielo.br/pdf/mioc/v53n2-3-4/tomo53(f2-3-4)_194-209.pdf
  • Paris, M. (1994) Catálogo de tipos de ortopteroides (Insecta) de Ignacio Bolivar, I: Blattaria, Mantodea, Phasmoptera y Orthoptera (Stenopelmatoidea, Rhaphidophoroidea, Tettigonioidea, Grylloidea, Tetrigoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 69, 143–264. [1993] Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/170427

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Etymology:

Latin for frog.

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