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Amorphopus testudo Saussure, 1861 (Nomen dubium)

Nomenclature (6)

  • Amorphopus testudo Saussure, 1861: 402. (nomen dubium in Cadena-Castañeda, Silva, Mendes, Pereira, Domenico & Sperber, 2020: 47 and Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 260)

    Syntype; immature; cb3dbfd2-9bd1-4672-bc6b-ffcac865ba6f; Guyana

  • Amorphopus testudo Saussure, 1861 in Kirby, 1910: 22.
  • Amorphopus testudo Saussure, 1861 in Cadena-Castañeda, Silva, Mendes, Pereira, Domenico & Sperber, 2020: 47.
  • Amorphopus testudo Saussure, 1861 in Tumbrinck, 2026: 431.

References (7)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1861) Orthoptera nova americana (Diagnoses praeliminares). II. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, 2(13), 126–130, 156–164, 313–324, 397–402. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20623#page/138/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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Silva, D.S.M., Mendes, D.M.de M., Pereira, M.R., de Domenico, F.C. & Sperber, C.F. (2020) Review of the tribe Amorphopini (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae): Pygmy moss-lichen tetrigids from the Amazon rainforest. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 1, 45–62. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/33717/
  • 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
  • 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

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin for tortoise or turtle.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1001