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Species

Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878)

Obscure Slant-Faced Grasshopper
Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878): male habitus. (Otu).
Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878): male habitus. (Otu).
Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878): Fig. 60. pattern variation. (Otu).
Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878): Pl. II, Fig. 8. female, lateral view. (Otu).
Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878): Pl. II, Fig. 8a. female, dorsal view of head and pronotum. (Otu).
Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878): Pl. II, Fig. 8b. female, sternum. (Otu).
Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878): distribution. (Otu).

Nomenclature (16)

  • Chrysochraon obscurus Scudder, 1878: 88.

    Holotype; male; 1e25883b-bf51-4e9d-b3a5-d378b2ad6395; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Florida: Orange: Fort Reed

  • Pedeticum obscurum (Scudder, 1878) in McNeill, 1897: 216.
  • Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878) in Capinera, Scherer & Squitier, 2001: 50.
  • Eritettix obscurus (Scudder, 1878) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 66, Plate 3.

References (15)

  • Scudder, S.H. (1878) The Florida Orthoptera collected by Mr. J. H. Comstock. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 19, 80–94. [1877] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130632#page/92/mode/1up
  • McNeill, J. (1897) Revision of the Truxalinae of North America. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 6, 179–274. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49878#page/195/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1898) A preliminary classfication of the Tryxalinae of the United States and Canada. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 8, 231–239. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12123166
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1903) Nature Wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Indianapolis, 245 pp. [1902]
  • Morse, A.P. (1904) Researches on North American Acrididae. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 18, 56 pp., 8 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Ub0GAAAAYAAJ
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1905) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of south and central Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 57, 29–55, Pl. 1. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30015
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) A revision of the genera and species of the Group Mogoplistii (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) found in North America north of the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(2), 184–234. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17736#page/196/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) On the Orthoptera found on the Florida Keys and in extreme southern Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(2), 235–276. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17736#page/247/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1915) Dermaptera and Orthoptera found in the vicinity of Miami, Florida, in March, 1915 (Part I). Entomological News, 26, 397–408. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84799#page/437/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1916) Spring Orthoptera found on the islands in the vicinity of Charlotte harbour, Florida. Entomological News, 27(1), 14–21. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84830
  • Slifer, E.H. (1943) The internal genitalia of some previously unstudied species of female Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology (Philadelphia), 72(2), 225–237.
  • 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. (1981) Acrididae: Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 1, 274 pp.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scherer, C.W. & Squitier, J.M. (2001) Grasshoppers of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 131 pp. Available at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/ghopper/ghopper.html
  • 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.

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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Species1067