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Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861)

Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): male (Argentina, Misiones). (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): male (Argentina, Misiones). (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 81. male head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 82. female head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): ovipostior valves, dorsal view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): ovipositor valves, ventral view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 84. ovipositor valves, lateral view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 83. male abdomen tip, lateral view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 85. distal portion of phallic complex, lateral view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 86. distal portion of phallic complex, dorsal view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 87. epiphallus, dorsal view. (Otu).
Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861): Fig. 88. epiphallus, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1521494; 9e5ee1e0-c532-4eea-a150-765103389692: male, lateral view (lectotype of Scotussa brasiliensis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1521494; 9e5ee1e0-c532-4eea-a150-765103389692: male, dorsal view (lectotype of Scotussa brasiliensis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530156; 07aab2fa-cd6f-4ebb-8838-b805713aaf9d: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530156; 07aab2fa-cd6f-4ebb-8838-b805713aaf9d: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
FieldOccurrence 3677; 1544e97f-3eed-4279-a343-25f864652b9a; Argentina: Buenos Aires Reserva Punta Lara, Arroyo Pereyra, 2019/11/10: (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 3678; b767df14-d0a2-4cd8-9e1c-ec4b298178d3; Argentina: Buenos Aires Reserva Punta Lara, 2022/12/10: (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 3678; b767df14-d0a2-4cd8-9e1c-ec4b298178d3; Argentina: Buenos Aires Reserva Punta Lara, 2022/12/10: (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (36)

  • Acridium (Podisma) cliens Stål, 1861: 335.

    Holotype; female; 07aab2fa-cd6f-4ebb-8838-b805713aaf9d; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Uruguay: Montevideo

  • Podisma cliens (Stål, 1861) in Walker, 1870: 719.
  • Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861) in Carbonell, Cigliano & Lange, 2006
  • Scotussa cliens (Stål, 1861) in Scattolini, Pocco & Cigliano, 2022: 245, 247.

References (27)

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  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
  • Bruner, L. (1900) Second Report of the Merchants' Locust Investigation Commission of Buenos Aires. Lincoln, 80 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39801
  • Bruner, L. (1906) Synoptic list of Paraguayan Acrididae, or locusts, with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 30(1461), 613–694. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53722#page/711/mode/1up
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  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1908) Acrididae (Orthoptera) from São Paulo, Brazil, with descriptions of one new genus and three new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 60, 12–23. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30138
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1915) A further contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Argentina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 67, 270–292. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79162#page/278/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1931) Die Ausbeute der deutschen Chaco-Expedition 1925-26. Orthoptera. Konowia, Zeitschrift für Systematische Insektenkunde, 10(4), 257–285. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/KON_10_0257-0285.pdf
  • Liebermann, J. (1939) Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 10, 125–230. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/58220
  • Liebermann, J. (1947) Revisión del género Scotussa, Giglio-Tos, con la descripción de dos especies nuevas y una sinonimia (Orth., Acrid., Cyrtacanth.). Publicaciones del Instituto de Sanidad vegetal, Minist. Agric. Nacion, Repub. Argentina, 3(33), 1–29.
  • Liebermann, J. (1948) Los Acridios de Santa Fe. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 14(1-2), 55–114. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/65195
  • Liebermann, J. (1958) Los acridios de Formosa (Orth. Caelifera, Acrididea). Publicaciones del Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, 5, 3–24.
  • Greathead, D.J. (1963) A review of the insect enemies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 114, 437–517.
  • Liebermann, J. (1965) Nuevos materiales homotípicos en la colección de acridios del Instituto de Patología Vegetal, Instituto Nacional de Technología Agropecuaria, INTA (Orthoptera). Physis. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, 25, 213–222.
  • Liebermann, J. (1967) Lista alfabética preliminar de las tucuras de la tribu Dichroplini de la región neotropical (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 30(1-4), 27–36. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/42296
  • Weidner, H. & Wagner, W. (1968) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg VII. Teil. Insecta IV. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 65, 123–179. Available at http://www.cenak.uni-hamburg.de/sammlungen/zoologie/entomologie/typenkatalog/weidner-1968-caelifera-homoptera.pdf
  • Gangwere, S.K. & Ronderos, R.A. (1975) A synopsis of food selection in Argentina Acridoidea. Acrida, 4, 173–194.
  • Villalobos, L.C.de (1980) Habitos alimentarios y morfologia mandibular de 19 especies de Melanoplinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 39(3-4), 325–333. [1981] Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/40879
  • Braker, H.E. (1989) Evolution and ecology of oviposition on host plants by acridoid grasshoppers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 38(4), 389–406.
  • Lange, C.E. (1992) Espectro hospedador natural y persistencia de Perezia dichroplusae Lange y Nosema locustae Canning (Protozoa: Microspora) en acridios argentinos (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Neotropica, 38(99), 65–74.
  • Cigliano, M.M. & Ronderos, R.A. (1994) Revision of the South American grasshopper genera Leiotettix Bruner and Scotussa Giglio-Tos (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 120(2), 145–180.
  • Cigliano, M.M., Ronderos, R.A. & Kemp, W.P. (1996) Phylogenetic relationships of Scotussa and Leiotettix (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Cladistics, 12(2), 125–138.
  • Lange, C.E. & de Wysiecki, M.L. (1996) The fate of Nosema locustae (Microsporida: Nosematidae) in argentine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). In Proceedings of the X International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds. Vol. 7, 24–29 pp.
  • Cigliano, M.M., de Wysiecki, M.L. & Lange, C.E. (2000) Grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) species diversity in the Pampas, Argentina. Diversity and Distributions, 6, 81–91. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1472-4642.2000.00077.x
  • Carbonell, C.S., Cigliano, M.M. & Lange, C.E. (2006) Especies de acridomorfos (Orthoptera) de Argentina y Uruguay / Acridomorph (Orthoptera) species of Argentina and Uruguay. The Orthopterists' Society.
  • Scattolini, M.C., Pocco, M.E. & Cigliano, M.M. (2022) New species and conservation status of the genus group Scotussae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the Atlantic Forest. Neotropical Entomology, 51(2), 243–255.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin for companion or follower, apparenly alluding to affinity with S. lemniscata.

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