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genus

Silvitettix Bruner, 1904

Type

Silvitettix communis Bruner, 1904 type species by original monotypy of Silvitettix Bruner, 1904

Nomenclature (20)

  • Silvitettix Bruner, 1904: 55.

    type species by original monotypy Silvitettix communis Bruner, 1904

  • Leuconotus Bruner, 1904: 57.

    type species by original monotypy Leuconotus biolleyi Bruner, 1904

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  • Silvitettix Bruner, 1904 in Rowell, 2013: 214.
  • Silvitettix Bruner, 1904 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015: 270.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • 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. & Cardona, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
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  • Carbonell, C.S. (1995) Revision of the tribe Scyllinini, nov. (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae), with descriptions of new genera and speces. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 121(3), 87–152.
  • Descamps, M. & Amédégnato, C. (1970) Acridomorpha [Orthoptera] récoltés en Guyane française par la mission du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6(4), 861–897. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6122547r/f352.item
  • Hebard, M. (1932) New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 58(3), 201–371. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4268_003#page/2/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (1981) Acrididae: Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 1, 274 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • 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.
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Descendants and synonyms

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. In gaps, along trails and edges of wet or moist forest, feeding on grasses.

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