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species

Sigaus minutus Bigelow, 1967

Type specimen

Holotype; female; c9e92d9b-8f71-427b-b449-35e9d246234b; deposited at: University of Auckland (AKU); New Zealand: Canterbury: Lake Tekapo

Nomenclature (4)

  • Sigaus minutus Bigelow, 1967: 58.

    Holotype; female; c9e92d9b-8f71-427b-b449-35e9d246234b; deposited at: University of Auckland (AKU); New Zealand: Canterbury: Lake Tekapo

  • Sigaus minutus Bigelow, 1967 in Jamieson, 1999: 44.
  • Sigaus minutus Bigelow, 1967 in Trewick, Morris, Johns, Hitchmough & Stringer, 2012
  • Sigaus minutus Bigelow, 1967 in Trewick, Koot & Morgan-Richards, 2023: 235, 238.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Bigelow, R.S. (1967) Grasshoppers of New Zealand.
  • Jamieson, C. (1999) A new species of Sigaus from Alexandra, New Zealand (Orthoptera: Acrididae). New Zealand J. Zool., 26(1), 43–48.
  • Trewick, S.A., Koot, E.M. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2023) Māwhitiwhiti Aotearoa: Phylogeny and synonymy of the silent alpine grasshopper radiation of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zootaxa, 5383(2), 225–241. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5383.2.7
  • Trewick, S.A., Morris, S.J., Johns, P.M., Hitchmough, R.A. & Stringer, I. (2012) The conservation status of New Zealand Orthoptera. New Zealand Entomologist, 35(2), 131–136. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00779962.2012.686318
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectiveminutus, minuta, minutum
Etymology:

Reference to small size.

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