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Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859

Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859: habitus and wings. (Otu).

Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859: Fig. 10. head and pronotum. (Otu).

Type specimen

Syntypes (n= 6); male; 7c8bd9ca-96c9-47e8-b2c1-dd7cfd50b5be; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Mexico

Nomenclature (33)

Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859: 391.
Syntypes (n= 6); male; 7c8bd9ca-96c9-47e8-b2c1-dd7cfd50b5be; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Mexico. Syntypes (n= 5); female; 00e25b23-7706-4455-ab11-629181f3f08f; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Mexico
Oxycoryphus tibialis Walker, 1870: 787.
Syntype; male; f8b75d6f-2460-4dfb-8649-07732dc74a0a; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Mexico: Oaxaca. Syntype; female; 2c0db897-80eb-4933-a0c8-556dc732f410; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Mexico: Oaxaca
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Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Thomas, 1873: 201.
Oxycoryphus tibialis Walker, 1870 in Thomas, 1873: 204.
Machaerocera sumichrasti Thomas, 1874: 70.
Syntype; 95a267c3-b5b7-46e6-b425-764cfc3b2d1c; Mexico
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Rehn, 1900: 96.
Machaerocera sumichrasti Thomas, 1874 in Rehn, 1900: 96.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Rehn, 1903: 9.
Machaerocera magna Bruner, 1904: 51.
Holotype; female; f0593da9-459a-4893-979b-364060d6b13e; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Mexico: Sinaloa: or Sinaloa
Machaerocera obscura Bruner, 1904: 50.
Machaerocera pacifica Bruner, 1904: 51.
Lectotype; male; 530c185f-9978-4bba-b34a-90dd3d2c8e7b; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Mexico: Nayarit: Tepic
Machaerocera pacifica Bruner, 1904 in Rehn & Hebard, 1912: 110.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Hebard, 1925: 270.
Oxycoryphus tibialis Walker, 1870 in Uvarov, 1925: 270.
Machaerocera obscura Bruner, 1904 (synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Hebard, 1925: 270.
Machaerocera sumichrasti Thomas, 1874 (subjective synonym of Oxycoryphus tibialis Walker, 1870) in Uvarov, 1925: 270.
Machaerocera pacifica Bruner, 1904 (subjective synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Hebard, 1925: 270.
Machaerocera sumichrasti Thomas, 1874 (subjective synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Hebard, 1925: 270.
Oxycoryphus tibialis Walker, 1870 (subjective synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Hebard, 1925: 276.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Helwig, 1942: 3.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Otte, 1984: 324.
Machaerocera obscura Bruner, 1904 (synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Otte, 1984: 324.
Machaerocera magna Bruner, 1904 (subjective synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Otte, 1984: 324.
Machaerocera pacifica Bruner, 1904 (subjective synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Otte, 1984: 324.
Machaerocera sumichrasti Thomas, 1874 (subjective synonym of Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859) in Otte, 1984: 324.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2008: 201.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Behrstock & Sullivan, 2011
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Gómez, Lightfoot & Miller, 2012: 137.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Hollier, 2012: 239.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Rowell & Behrstock, 2012: 241 (Fig. 10).
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Buzzetti, Méndez-Gómez & Horta-Vega, 2013: 300-301.

Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Cadena-Castañeda & Monzón-Sierra, 2014: 400.
Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 in Fontana, Buzzetti, Mariño-Pérez, Castellanos-Vargas, Monge-Rodríguez & Cano-Santana, 2017: 157.

Nomenclature references (20)

Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Buzzetti, F.M., Méndez-Gómez, B.R. & Horta-Vega, J.V. (2013) In Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada. Ciudad de México. 388 pp.
Behrstock, R.A. & Sullivan, P.H. (2011) First records of the grasshopper Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from the United States and Sonora, Mexico. Insecta Mundi, 0199, 1–4. Available at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1710&context=insectamundi
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Bruner, L. (1904) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 33–105. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Monzón-Sierra, J. (2014) Studies in Guatemalan Caelifera: New grasshoppers and monkey grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea & Eumastacoidea) and an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 3857(3), 379–411.

Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2008) In Chapulines, Langostas, Grillos y Esperanzas de México. Guía fotográfica - Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets & Katydids of Mexico. Photographic guide. World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy. 1–272 pp. Available at http://biodiversityassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Grasshoppers-Locusts-Crickets-Katydids-Of-Mexico.pdf

Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Mariño-Pérez, R., Castellanos-Vargas, I., Monge-Rodríguez, S. & Cano-Santana, Z. (2017) In Ortópteros de Oaxaca. Orthopterans of Oaxaca. WBA Handbooks 8, Verona. 1–212 pp.

Gómez, R.A., Lightfoot, D.C. & Miller, K.B. (2012) A phylogenetic review of the North American band-winged grasshopper genus, Encoptolophus Scudder with description of Nebulatettix gen.n. (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Insect Systematics and Evolution, 43(2), 117–145. Available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24605044

Hebard, M. (1925) Dermaptera and Orthoptera from the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Part II Saltatorial Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 51, 265–310. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4261_004#page/9/mode/1up

Helwig, E.R. (1942) Unusual integration of chromatin in Machaerocera and other genera of Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology (Philadelphia), 71, 1–34, 4 pls.

Hollier, J.A. (2012) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 2: The Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(2), 215–260. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/183707#page/71/mode/1up

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

Rehn, J.A.G. (1900) Notes on Mexican Orthoptera with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27, 85–96. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4237_001#page/95/mode/1up

Rehn, J.A.G. (1903) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Mexico and Central America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 29(1), 1–34. Available at https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4239_001#page/6/mode/1up

Rowell, C.H.F. & Behrstock, R.A. (2012) Additions to the acridoid grasshopper fauna of El Salvador. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 21(2), 235–243. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1665/034.021.0208

Thomas, C. (1873) Part II: Acrididae of North America not found in the United States. In Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 5, pp. 191–262. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18502#page/207/mode/1up

Thomas, C. (1874) Descriptions of some new Orthoptera, and notes on some species but little known. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1(2), 63–71. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99293#page/115/mode/1up

Uvarov, B.P. (1925) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum 4. Identification of the types of Acrididae preserved in the Museum. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 72(3-4), 265–301. [1924]

Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
de Saussure, H. (1859) Orthoptera Nova Americana (Diagnoses praeliminares). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, 2(11), 201–212, 315–317, 390–394. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48711#page/205/mode/1up

Asserted distribution

Collection object

Type material

Descendants and synonyms

Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859
- =Machaerocera magna Bruner, 1904
- =Machaerocera obscura Bruner, 1904
- =Machaerocera pacifica Bruner, 1904
- =Machaerocera sumichrasti Thomas, 1874
- =Oxycoryphus tibialis Walker, 1870

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859

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Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
species	6	1	5