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Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873)

Western Spotted-Winged Grasshopper; Spotted-Winged Grasshopper

Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873): male (about 5 miles south of Chadron, Nebraska, 18 June 2020). (Otu).
Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873): male (about 5 miles south of Chadron, Nebraska, 18 June 2020). (Otu).
Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873): female (about 13 miles north of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 6 July 2020). (Otu).
Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873): male habitus. (Otu).
Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873): Fig. 25B. head and pronotum, lateral view. (Otu).
Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873): Pl. IV, Fig. 18. male habitus. (Otu).
Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873): Fig. 8. male, head and pronotum, dorsal outline. (Otu).

Type specimen

Lectotype; male; bd7f88b0-6cb3-45fc-8702-5b3295823ee5; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Colorado

Nomenclature (40)

  • Stenobothrus occipitalis Thomas, 1873: 81.
  • Ochrilidia cinerea Bruner, 1889: 52.
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  • Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873) in Johnson, 2003: 11.
  • Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas, 1873) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 64, Plate 2.

Nomenclature references (27)

  • Barnum (1964) Orthoptera of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, 4(3), 134 pp.
  • Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
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  • Bruner, L. (1889) New North American Acrididae, found North of the Mexican boundary. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 12, 47–82. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53609#page/63/mode/1up
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) In Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 249 pp.
  • Hebard, M. (1925) The Orthoptera of South Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 77, 33–155.
  • 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
  • Jago, N.D. (1969) A revision of the systematics and taxonomy of certain north American gomphocerine grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae, Acrididae, Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 121, 229–335. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Cfm77llhguYC
  • Johnson, D.L. (2003) Slant-faced grasshoppers of the Canadian Prairies and Northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands, 9, 5–16.
  • 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
  • Morse, A.P. & Hebard, M. (1915) Fixation of single type (lectotypic) specimens of species of American Orthoptera. Division III. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 67, 96–106. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17758#page/104/mode/1up
  • Morse, A.P. (1903) New Orthoptera from Nevada. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 10, 115–116. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48889#page/135/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part II: New Mexico and western Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 111–175. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84740#page/119/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part III: California and Nevada. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 409–483. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26288106#page/417/mode/1up
  • 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. (1901) Random notes on North American Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27, 331–337. [1900] Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4237_004#page/58/mode/1up
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thomas, C. (1873) Part I: Synopsis of the Acrididae of North America. In Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 5, pp. 1–190. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18502#page/13/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]
  • 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
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