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Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) picteti (Krauss, 1892)

Tenerife Sand Grasshopper
Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) picteti (Krauss, 1892): 2012. individual from Tenerife. (Otu).
Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) picteti (Krauss, 1892): 2012. individual from Tenerife. (Otu).
Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) picteti (Krauss, 1892): individual from Tenerife. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1530739; 989e5ff5-8cb4-44b9-b03e-e2c57c4dd0f1: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530739; 989e5ff5-8cb4-44b9-b03e-e2c57c4dd0f1: male, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530739; 989e5ff5-8cb4-44b9-b03e-e2c57c4dd0f1: male, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530739; 989e5ff5-8cb4-44b9-b03e-e2c57c4dd0f1: male, epiproct (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530739; 989e5ff5-8cb4-44b9-b03e-e2c57c4dd0f1: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530875; 2e24e4b5-bf52-44df-be94-9bdd7225bda6: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530875; 2e24e4b5-bf52-44df-be94-9bdd7225bda6: female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530875; 2e24e4b5-bf52-44df-be94-9bdd7225bda6: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530875; 2e24e4b5-bf52-44df-be94-9bdd7225bda6: female, subgenital plate and ovipositor (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530875; 2e24e4b5-bf52-44df-be94-9bdd7225bda6: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (11)

  • Thalpomena picteti Krauss, 1892: 167.

    Syntype; male; 989e5ff5-8cb4-44b9-b03e-e2c57c4dd0f1; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); Spain: Islas Canarias: Tenerife. Syntype; female; 2e24e4b5-bf52-44df-be94-9bdd7225bda6; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); Spain: Islas Canarias: Tenerife

  • Fortunata picteti (Krauss, 1892) in Bolívar, 1908: 325.
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  • Sphingonotus picteti (Krauss, 1892) in Hochkirch & Husemann, 2008
  • Sphingonotus picteti (Krauss, 1892) in Husemann, Deppermann & Hochkirch, 2014

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Bolívar, I. (1908) Algunos ortópteros nuevos de España, Marruecos y Canarias. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 8, 317–334. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18007#page/333/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1954) Contributions entomologiques de l'expedition finlandaise aux Canaries 1947-1951. No. 7 Insectes Orthoptéroides récoltés aux iles Canaries par M. H. Lindberg. Commentationes Biologicae. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 14(7), 1–15.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Herrera, L. (1982) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Spain. Series Entomologica, 22, 1–162.
  • Hochkirch, A. & Husemann, M. (2008) A review of the Canarian Sphingonotini with description of a new species from Fuerteventura (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Zoological Studies, 47(4), 495–506. Available at http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/47.4/495.pdf
  • Husemann, M., Deppermann, J. & Hochkirch, A. (2014) Multiple independent colonization of the Canary Islands by the winged grasshopper genus Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 81, 174–181.
  • Johnsen, P. (1985) Contributions to the knowledge of the genera Spingonotus, Pseudosphingonotus and Wernerella in Africa, with description of four new species (Acridoidea, Oedipodinae). Natura Jutlandica, 21(10), 149–167.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Krauss, H.A. (1892) Systematisches Verzeichnis der canarischen Dermapteren und Orthopteren mit Diagnosen der neuen Gattungen und Arten. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 15, 163–171. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37585#page/513/mode/1up
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) In Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the Swiss entomologist Alphonse Pictet (1838–1903).

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