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genus

Mestobregma Scudder, 1876

Type

Oedipoda plattei Thomas, 1873 type species by original monotypy of Mestobregma Scudder, 1876

Nomenclature (8)

  • Mestobregma Scudder, 1876: 264. (valid)

    type species by original monotypy Oedipoda plattei Thomas, 1873

  • Mestobregma Scudder, 1876 in Scudder, 1897: 36.
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  • Mestobregma Scudder, 1876 in Otte, 1995: 382.
  • Mestobregma Scudder, 1876 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 419.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Bruner, L. (1905) Concerning the locust genus Mestobregma, Scudder. Entomological News, 16, 259–260. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79379
  • Otte, D. (1984) Acrididae: Oedipodinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 2, 366 pp.
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  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1906) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Montana, Yellowstone Park, Utah and Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 58, 358–418. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30129
  • Scudder, S.H. (1876) List of the Orthoptera collected by Dr. A. S. Packard in Colorado and the neighboring Territories, during the Summer of 1875. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 2, 261–267. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100255#page/385/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) In Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico. Cambridge, Mass. 87 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogeneracla00scudrich
  • Scudder, S.H. (1900) The clear-winged species of the Oedipodinae genus Mestobregma. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 9(292), 90–93. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42922#page/104/mode/1up
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek μεστός, full and βρέγμᾱ, skull, relating to large head.

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