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Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870)

Bigheaded Grasshopper
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): female (USA, Utah, Provo). (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): female (USA, Utah, Provo). (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): female (King Canyon Road, about 5.5 miles south of Chadron, Nebraska, 27 June 2020). (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): female (King Canyon Road, about 5.5 miles south of Chadron, Nebraska, 3 July 2020). (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): Fig. 6. female habitus (Aulocara parallelum). (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): Fig. 7. female head and pronotum,dorsal view (Aulocara parallelum). (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): male habitus. (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): females, head and pronotum. (Otu).
Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870): Fig. 68. pattern variation. (Otu).
CollectionObject 2800440; CNCI 983531, 2befedc4-8ac4-458d-94c4-5f7713309686: Aulocara elliotti. Dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2800440; CNCI 983531, 2befedc4-8ac4-458d-94c4-5f7713309686: Aulocara elliotti. Lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2800440; CNCI 983531, 2befedc4-8ac4-458d-94c4-5f7713309686: Aulocara elliotti. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (37)

  • Stauronotus elliotti Thomas, 1870: 82.
  • Aulocara caerulipes Scudder, 1876: 266.

    Holotype; male; 00808c39-f0a4-4889-a173-0236edde85df; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado: El Paso: Garden of the Gods

  • Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 59, Plate 1.
  • Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870) in Rivera García, 2006: 137.

References (27)

  • Thomas, C. (1870) Descriptions of grasshoppers from Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 22, 74–84. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84763#page/84/mode/1up
  • 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. (1876) Report on the Orthoptera collected by the U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 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., 278–295.
  • Bruner, L. (1885) Contribution to the North Trans-continental Survey. Orthoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 17(1), 9–19. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22147#page/14/mode/1up
  • Townsend, C.H.T. (1893) On the injurious and other locusts of New Mexico and Arizona. Insect Life, 6, 29–32. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/191483#page/41/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1899) Short studies of North American Tryxalinae. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 35, 41–57. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26224#page/53/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
  • 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
  • Bruner, L. (1905) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 105–176. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part II. A list of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Arizona with new records and corrections of the literature subsequent to 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61(3), 269–316. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4271_003#page/119/mode/1up
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. The American Midland Naturalist, 40, 521–663. [1949]
  • Pfadt, R.E. (1949) Food-plants, distribution, and abundance of the big-headed grasshopper, Aulocara elliotti (Thos). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 22(2), 69–74, 1 map.
  • Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
  • 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
  • Otte, D. (1970) A comparative study of communicative behavior in grasshoppers. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 141, 1–168. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56385
  • 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. (1983) A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 13(1), I-IV, i-xxii, 1–679.
  • 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
  • Pfadt, R.E., Lockwood, J.A. & Foppe, T.M. (1988) Diets of three common grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) inhabiting desert grassland. The Canadian Entomologist, 120(5), 415–424.
  • 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
  • Johnson, D.L. (2003) Slant-faced grasshoppers of the Canadian Prairies and Northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands, 9, 5–16.
  • 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.
  • Rivera García, E. (2006) An annotated checklist of some orthopteroid insects of Mapimi Biosphere Reserve (Chihuahuan desert), Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, nueva serie, 22(3), 131–149. Available at http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57522311

Descendants and synonyms

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