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Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014

Lila Downs Friar Grasshopper
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: female on Salvia elegans at the type locality. (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: female on Salvia elegans at the type locality. (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: male at the type locality. (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: female. (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: male nymph. (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: female, lateral view (paratype). (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: male, lighter color form (holotype). (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: male, darker color form (paratype). (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: nymph. (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: phallic complex. (Otu).
Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014: habitat. (Otu).

Nomenclature (3)

  • Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014 in Woller, Fontana, Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2014: 485.

    Holotype; male; 5a0986a6-3220-4b47-bc3d-bf8f2c3b9613; deposited at: University of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods (UCFC); Mexico: Oaxaca: near Suchixtepec, 26 km after San José del Pacífico

  • Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014 in Woller, 2014
  • Liladownsia fraile Fontana, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Song, 2014 in Fontana, Buzzetti, Mariño-Pérez, Castellanos-Vargas, Monge-Rodríguez & Cano-Santana, 2017: 148.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Mariño-Pérez, R., Castellanos-Vargas, I., Monge-Rodríguez, S. & Cano-Santana, Z. (2017) In Ortópteros de Oaxaca. Orthopterans of Oaxaca. WBA Handbooks 8, Verona. 1–212 pp.
  • Woller, D.A. (2014) Liladownsia fraile: the rest of the story. Metaleptea, 34(2), 13–15. Available at http://140.247.96.247/orthsoc/pdf/met_34_2.pdf
  • Woller, D.A., Fontana, P., Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2014) Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Liladownsia fraile, a new genus and species of Dactylotini (Acrididae: Melanoplinae) and an updated molecular phylogeny of Melanoplinae. Zootaxa, 3793(4), 475–495. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03793p495.pdf

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

The specific epithet comes from the common name used for this species by the local people of the type locality. Spanish “fraile” translates to monk or friar, referring to the swollen prozona of the pronotum, which resembles the hood of a monk’s robe. For the same reason some locals also refer to it as “chapulín de capucho” (hooded grasshopper).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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