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Species

Stethophyma lineatum (Scudder, 1862)

Striped Sedge Locust
Stethophyma lineatum (Scudder, 1862): male habitus. (Otu).
Stethophyma lineatum (Scudder, 1862): male habitus. (Otu).

Nomenclature (19)

  • Arcyptera lineata Scudder, 1862: 462.

    Syntype; male; d452240f-e046-4fd1-83c3-69d01382b57b; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Massachusetts: Sanborn

  • Stethophyma lineata (Scudder, 1862) in Fernald, 1888: 38.
  • Stethophyma lineatum (Scudder, 1862) in McAlpine & Ogden, 2012: 46.
  • Stethophyma lineata (Scudder, 1862) in Brust, Bomar & Harman, 2025: 144.

References (19)

  • Scudder, S.H. (1862) Materials for a monograph of the North American Orthoptera including a catalogue of the known New England species. Boston Journal of Natural History, 7(3), 409–480. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/materialsformono00scudrich
  • Fernald, C.H. (1888) The Orthoptera of New England. Wright & Potter Printing Company, Boston, 1–61 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35173
  • Morse, A.P. (1896) Notes on the Acrididae of New England II. Tryxalinae I & II. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 7, 323–327, 342–344. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42913#page/367/mode/1up
  • McNeill, J. (1897) Revision of the Truxalinae of North America. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 6, 179–274. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49878#page/195/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1901) Alphabetical index to North American Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 6, 1–436. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31824#page/15/mode/1up
  • Walker, E.M. (1915) Notes on a collection of Orthoptera from Prince Edward Island and the Magadalen Islands, Quebec. The Canadian Entomologist, 47, 339–347. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22112#page/357/mode/1up
  • Morse, A.P. (1920) Manual of the Orthoptera of New England, including the locusts, grasshoppers, crickets and their allies. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 35(6), 197–556, 20 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=jf5RAAAAMAAJ
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1967) Records of the orthopteroid insects in Ontario. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 97, 13–68. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/139986#page/423/mode/1up
  • Fontana, P. & Vickery, V.R. (1974) Heterochromatin content and chiasma distribution in the Megameric chromosomes of Stethophyma gracile and S. lineatum (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Chromosoma, 46, 375–395.
  • Otte, D. (1981) Acrididae: Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 1, 274 pp.
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1986) The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, 14, 1–918. Available at http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/aac-aafc/agrhist/A42-42-1985-14-eng.pdf
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Otte, D. (1994) Review of the genus Stethophyma Fischer (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Acridinae: Parapleurini). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2, 61–64.
  • Vickery, V.R. (1997) Chapter 10. Orthopteroids (Orthopteroidea) of the Yukon. In Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada. 223–239 pp. Available at http://biologicalsurvey.ca/monographs/read/3
  • Bland, R.G. (2003) The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets. Michigan State University Extension, 220 pp.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 249 pp.
  • McAlpine, D.F. & Ogden, J.B. (2012) New and noteworthy records of Orthoptera from Maritime Canada. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society, 8, 43–47. Available at http://www.acadianes.ca/journal/papers/mcalpine_11-17.pdf
  • Brust, M.L., Bomar, C.R. & Harman, A.J. (2025) Updated county-level distribution records for Wisconsin short-horned grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae and Romaleidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.124604

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1034