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Species

Mermiria picta (Walker, 1870)

Lively Mermiria Grasshopper
Mermiria picta (Walker, 1870): male habitus. (Otu).
Mermiria picta (Walker, 1870): male habitus. (Otu).
Mermiria picta (Walker, 1870): male habitus. (Otu).

Nomenclature (38)

  • Opomala [sic] picta Walker, 1870: 516.

    Holotype; male; 41a4c988-d0f3-4f7b-8778-bb8f70d469f7; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); U.S.A.: unknown locality

  • Opomala [sic] neomexicana Thomas, 1870: 77.

    Syntype; female; 04c71d23-8414-465b-ae4f-482c196c066c; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: New Mexico

  • Mermiria picta (Walker, 1870) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 69, Plate 7.
  • Mermiria picta (Walker, 1870) in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Buzzetti, Méndez-Gómez & Horta-Vega, 2013: 193.

References (24)

  • 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
  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich
  • Stål, C. (1873) Acridiodea. In Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm. Vol. 1, 154 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ
  • Scudder, S.H. (1877) A Century of Orthoptera, Decade VII, Acrydii. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 19, 27–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130632#page/39/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. (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. & 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
  • 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. (1907) Notes on Orthoptera from southern Arizona, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59, 24–81. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=DY9l7J6HxsAC
  • 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. (1919) A study of the Orthoptera genus Mermiria Stål. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 71, 55–120. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84735#page/63/mode/1up
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1920) Orthoptera of northeastern America with special reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, 781 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16768
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum 4. Identification of the types of Acrididae preserved in the Museum. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 72(3-4), 265–301. [1924]
  • 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. (1929) The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 303–425.
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • 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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Buzzetti, F.M., Méndez-Gómez, B.R. & Horta-Vega, J.V. (2013) Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada. Ciudad de México, 388 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.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1089