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Procytettix fusiformis Bolívar, 1912

Seychelles Wingless Groundhopper
CollectionObject 1517900; 2fb2cd2c-f6e7-403c-8483-3a777a2f20b6: 2013 Natural History Museum, London. male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517900; 2fb2cd2c-f6e7-403c-8483-3a777a2f20b6: 2013 Natural History Museum, London. male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584085; 82779a2c-d8dd-4336-8150-69553293401c, NHMUK010924482: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584085; 82779a2c-d8dd-4336-8150-69553293401c, NHMUK010924482: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584085; 82779a2c-d8dd-4336-8150-69553293401c, NHMUK010924482: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584085; 82779a2c-d8dd-4336-8150-69553293401c, NHMUK010924482: male, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584085; 82779a2c-d8dd-4336-8150-69553293401c, NHMUK010924482: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584086; 0ff61696-5aa7-4452-862a-5201c3d68bea, NHMUK010924481: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584086; 0ff61696-5aa7-4452-862a-5201c3d68bea, NHMUK010924481: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584086; 0ff61696-5aa7-4452-862a-5201c3d68bea, NHMUK010924481: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584086; 0ff61696-5aa7-4452-862a-5201c3d68bea, NHMUK010924481: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584086; 0ff61696-5aa7-4452-862a-5201c3d68bea, NHMUK010924481: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Procytettix fusiformis Bolívar, 1912: 266.

    Syntype; male; 2fb2cd2c-f6e7-403c-8483-3a777a2f20b6; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Seychelles: Mahé, high damp forest at summit of Morne Pilot. Syntype; male; NHMUK010924482; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Seychelles: Mahé, high damp forest at summit of Morne Pilot. Syntype; female; NHMUK010924481; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Seychelles: Mahé, high damp forest at summit of Morne Pilot

  • Procytettix fusiformis Bolívar, 1912 in Günther, 1939: 286.
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  • Procytettix fusiformis Bolívar, 1912 in Storozhenko, 2016: 23.
  • Procytettix fusformis [sic] Bolívar, 1912 (misspelling of Procytettix fusiformis Bolívar, 1912)

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Bolívar, I. (1912) Orthoptera. Acrydiidae. Phasgonuridae. Gryllidae (of the Seychelles). The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 15(2), 263–292. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55329#page/303/mode/1up
  • Gerlach, J. & Haas, F. (2008) Orthopteroidea of the Seychelles Islands. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 88 pp.
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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.
  • Matyot, P. (1998) The orthopteroids of the Seychelles: a threatened island fauna. Journal of Insect Conservation, 2, 235–246. Available at http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023%2FA%3A1009647930445.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
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2016) Review of the pygmy grasshoppers of the tribe Cleostratini (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Far Eastern Entomologist, 326, 1–44.
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1939) Revision of the genera Rhopalotettix Hancock, Rostella Hancock and allied and similar genera (Orthoptera, Acridiae, Acrydiinae). Lingnan Science Journal, 18(3-4), 329–339, 463–474.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Alluding to fusiform body.

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