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Compsacris pulcher Bolívar, 1890

CollectionObject 1533572; fb587f2b-7407-4952-a2e9-58daff1a2e41: Image Carbonell, C.S. labels (holotype of Amblyscapheus lineatus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1533572; fb587f2b-7407-4952-a2e9-58daff1a2e41: Image Carbonell, C.S. labels (holotype of Amblyscapheus lineatus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1533572; fb587f2b-7407-4952-a2e9-58daff1a2e41: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (holotype of Amblyscapheus lineatus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1533572; fb587f2b-7407-4952-a2e9-58daff1a2e41: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (holotype of Amblyscapheus lineatus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1533572; fb587f2b-7407-4952-a2e9-58daff1a2e41: Image Carbonell, C.S. female head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype of Amblyscapheus lineatus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1533572; fb587f2b-7407-4952-a2e9-58daff1a2e41: Carbonell [earlier photo with intact hindlegs?]. female abdomen end, lateral view (holotype of Amblyscapheus lineatus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535759; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f: male, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (15)

  • Compsacris pulcher Bolívar, 1890: 315.

    Syntype; male; a07f44e2-b91c-4ed5-8d33-c1c2050e907f; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Peru: Villa Bella

  • Amblyscapheus lineatus Bruner, 1906: 633.

    Holotype; male; fb587f2b-7407-4952-a2e9-58daff1a2e41; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Paraguay: Paraguarí: Sapucai

  • Compsacris pulcher Bolívar, 1890 in Cardona-Granda, 2015: 114-115.
  • Compsacris pulcher Bolívar, 1890 in Matiotti da Costa, Martins, Zefa, Redü, Morselli & Mello, 2015

References (13)

  • Bolívar, I. (1890) Diagnosis de ortópteros nuevos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 19, 299–333. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54768#page/303/mode/1up
  • Bruner, L. (1906) Synoptic list of Paraguayan Acrididae, or locusts, with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 30(1461), 613–694. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53722#page/711/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Bruner, L. (1911) South American Acridoidea. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 8(1), 5–147. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37006
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1916) The Stanford expedition to Brazil. 1911, Dermaptera and Orthoptera I. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 42(3), 215–308. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4252_003#page/1/mode/1up
  • Bruner, L. (1920) Saltatorial Orthoptera from South America and the Isle of Pines. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 13, 5–91. [1919] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38118#page/19/mode/1up
  • Liebermann, J. (1939) Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 10, 125–230. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/58220
  • Liebermann, J. (1965) Nuevos materiales homotípicos en la colección de acridios del Instituto de Patología Vegetal, Instituto Nacional de Technología Agropecuaria, INTA (Orthoptera). Physis. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, 25, 213–222.
  • Jago, N.D. (1971) A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world with a key to the genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 123, 205–343. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=ELz9FCjoVVkC
  • Otte, D. & Jago, N.D. (1979) Revision of the grasshopper genera Silvitettix and Compsacris (Gomphocerinae. Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 131, 257–288.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Grasshoppers of Northwest South America. A Photo Guide. Volume 2 - The Eastern Fauna. Blurb, 236 pp.
  • Matiotti da Costa, M.K., Martins, L.de P., Zefa, E., Redü, D.R., Morselli, J.P. & de Mello, F.de A.G. (2015) Checklist of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke, State of Amazonas, Brazil, and new records for the country. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 24(2), 59–65. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1665/034.024.0204

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: beautiful, pretty.

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