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Species

Criotettix armigera (Walker, 1871)

This name is not valid/accepted. The valid name is Criotettix bispinosus (Dalman, 1818).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518013; 417c4a0c-c62a-4ac4-a847-567cd4fd9f33, NHMUK10924492: male, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Tettix armigera Walker, 1871: 826.

    Holotype; male; NHMUK10924492; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Hong Kong: Southern: Hongkong

  • Tettix armigera Walker, 1871 (subjective synonym of Acrydium bispinosum Dalman, 1818) in Kirby, 1910: 16.
  • Criotettix armigera (Walker, 1871) in Deng, Chen, Sheng, Zhao & Wu, 2019: 502.
  • Tettix armigera Walker, 1871 (subjective synonym of Acrydium bispinosum Dalman, 1818) in Tumbrinck, 2026: 410.

References (8)

  • Walker, F. (1871) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 5, 811–850 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34094
  • 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
  • Bruner, L. (1915) Preliminary catalogue of the Orthopteroid insects of the Philippine Islands. University Studies, 15(2), 195–281 [1–87]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94891#page/233/mode/1up
  • Günther, K. (1938) Revision der Acrydiinae (Orth.) II. Scelimenae spuriae. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 99, 117–148, 161–230. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Zeitung-Stettin_99_0161-0230.pdf
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 6. Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and Addenda to OSF Vols. 1-5. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 261 pp.
  • Deng, W.-A., Chen, D.-N., Sheng, Q., Zhao, C.-L. & Wu, F.-P. (2019) An annotated catalogue of the pygmy grasshoppers of the genus Criotettix Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with two new Criotettix species from China. Zootaxa, 4629(4), 498–518.
  • 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

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