species

Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875)

Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875): 5th-instar nymph (about 18 miles north of Crawford, Nebraska, 20 June 2020). (Otu).

Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875): male (north of Crawford, Nebraska, 25 July 2020). (Otu).

Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875): habitus. (Otu).

Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875): Fig. 56E. pronotum. (Otu).

Type specimen

Neotype; male; eeac295b-7e80-4d79-90b4-ae40c2f16dd2; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado: Montrose: Cedar Creek

Nomenclature (29)

Oedipoda sparsa Thomas, 1875: 883.
Neotype; male; eeac295b-7e80-4d79-90b4-ae40c2f16dd2; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado: Montrose: Cedar Creek
Circotettix sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Scudder, 1876: 498-515.
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Trimerotropis azurescens Bruner, 1889: 69.
Lectotype; female; 1170bd78-acbb-4ddc-a9c0-65cb4e9932a5; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Wyoming: Green River, Alkali Station
Trimerotropis perplexa Bruner, 1889: 74.
Lectotype; female; 29d5f7b2-c3b9-4614-a4de-e32c0a22a495; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Nebraska: Dawes: Chadron, badlands
Circotettix sparsus (Thomas, 1875) in Scudder, 1900: 141.
Circotettix perplexus (Bruner, 1889) in Scudder, 1900: 141.
Trimerotropis perplexa Bruner, 1889 (subjective synonym of Trimerotropis azurescens Bruner, 1889) in McNeill, 1901: 393.
Circotettix perplexa (Bruner, 1889) in Scudder, 1901: 88.
Circotettix sparsus (Thomas, 1875) in Scudder & Cockerell, 1902: 38.
Circotettix azurescens (Bruner, 1889) in Caudell, 1903: 793.
Trimerotropis azurescens Bruner, 1889 in Rehn & Hebard, 1912: 65.
Trimerotropis perplexa Bruner, 1889 in Rehn & Hebard, 1912: 66.
Trimerotropis perplexa Bruner, 1889 (subjective synonym of Trimerotropis azurescens Bruner, 1889) in Henderson, 1924: 112.
Circotettix sparsus (Thomas, 1875) in Hebard, 1927: 6.
Trimerotropis azurescens Bruner, 1889 in Hebard, 1928: 211.
Trimerotropis perplexa Bruner, 1889 (subjective synonym of Oedipoda sparsa Thomas, 1875) in Hebard, 1928: 211.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Hebard, 1928: 252.
Trimerotropis azurescens Bruner, 1889 (subjective synonym of Oedipoda sparsa Thomas, 1875) in Hebard, 1929: 352.
Trimerotropis perplexa Bruner, 1889 (subjective synonym of Oedipoda sparsa Thomas, 1875) in Hebard, 1929: 352.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Hebard, 1929: 351.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Brooks, 1958: 47.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Barnum, 1964: 76.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Strohecker, Middlekauff & Rentz, 1968: 125.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Rentz & Weissman, 1980
Trimerotropis azurescens Bruner, 1889 (subjective synonym of Oedipoda sparsa Thomas, 1875) in Otte, 1984: 336.
Trimerotropis perplexa Bruner, 1889 (subjective synonym of Oedipoda sparsa Thomas, 1875) in Otte, 1984: 336.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Otte, 1984: 230, 336.

Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Vickery & Kevan, 1986: 505.
Trimerotropis sparsa (Thomas, 1875) in Richman, Lightfoot, Sutherland & Ferguson, 1993: 102.

Nomenclature references (20)

Barnum (1964) Orthoptera of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, 4(3), 134 pp.
Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
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Bruner, L. (1889) New North American Acrididae, found North of the Mexican boundary. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 12, 47–82. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53609#page/63/mode/1up

Caudell, A.N. (1903) Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 26, 775–809, Plate 55. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32571#page/903/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1927) Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 79, 1–11.

Hebard, M. (1928) The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 80, 211–306.

Hebard, M. (1929) The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 303–425.

Henderson, W.W. (1924) A taxonomic and ecological study of the species of the subfamily Oedipodinae (Orth. Acrid.) found in Utah with a summary of world distribution and a list of Orthoptera recorded for the state. Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin, 191, 150 pp.

McNeill, J. (1901) Revision of the Orthopteran genus Trimerotropis. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 23(1215), 393–449. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofuni231901unit

Otte, D. (1984) Acrididae: Oedipodinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 2, 366 pp.

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(1), 60–128. Available at http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca64acad/page/60/mode/2up

Rentz, D.C.F. & Weissman, D.B. (1980) An annotated checklist of the grasshopper species of Aerochoreutes, Circotettix and Trimerotropis (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 106(2), 223–252.

Richman, D.B., Lightfoot, D.C., Sutherland, C.A. & Ferguson, J.W.H. (1993) A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico, Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service Handbook, 7, 1–112. Available at http://nmsu.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/AgCircs/id/63174

Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell, T.D.A. (1902) A first list of the Orthoptera of New Mexico. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 9, 1–60. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88768#page/23/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. (1876) Appendix H9. Report on the Orthoptera collected under the direction of Lieut. G. M. Wheeler, during the season of 1875. Ann. Rep. Chief Engineer's U.S. Geogr. Surv. W. of 100th Merid., Appendix JJ, 498–515.

Scudder, S.H. (1900) The species of Circotettix, a North American genus of Oedipodinae. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 9(296), 135–141. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42922#page/149/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. (1901) Four new species of Hippiscus. The Canadian Entomologist, 33(3), 88–92. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88722#page/100/mode/1up

Strohecker, H.F., Middlekauff, W.W. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1968) The grasshoppers of California (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 10, 1–177. Available at http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis10.pdf

Thomas, C. (1875) Report upon the collection of Orthoptera made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Report. U. S. Geol. Surv. W of 100th Merid, 5, 843–908, pl. 43–45. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20178#page/941/mode/1up
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