Species

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: male head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: male abdomen tip, lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: male abdomen tip, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: female head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: female head and pronotum, lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: phallic complex without epiphallus, lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: phallic complex without epiphallus, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: epiphallus, dorsal and lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: endophallus, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: endophallus, lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: valves of aedeagus, ventral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 1. male habitus. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 2. male head, frontal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 3. male, head, pronotum and tegmina, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 4. male abdomen tip, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 5. meso-metathorax. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 6. prosternal tuberculum, frontal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 7. prosternal edge in the metazona, frontal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 8. phallic complex without epiphallus, lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 9. phallic complex without cingulum, lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 10. cingulum, lateral view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 11. phallic complex without epiphallus, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 12. phallic complex without cingulum, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 13. epiphallus, dorsal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 14. epiphallus, frontal view. (Otu).

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: Fig. 15. epiphallus, lateral view. (Otu).

CollectionObject 1506261; c9915abf-2448-4d0d-a95a-94782192a4c2: Image Carbonell, C.S. [nirrir image]. male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1506261; c9915abf-2448-4d0d-a95a-94782192a4c2: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1506670; 2bbc0429-19bb-4b2d-814f-bf220c9af00c: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (allo- or paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1506670; 2bbc0429-19bb-4b2d-814f-bf220c9af00c: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, dorsal view (allo- or paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518742; 40f67018-908b-465b-bae5-81dc4b729fa3: Image Carbonell, C.S. labels (syn- or lectotype of Platyphyma mexicanum). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518742; 40f67018-908b-465b-bae5-81dc4b729fa3: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (syn- or lectotype of Platyphyma mexicanum). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518742; 40f67018-908b-465b-bae5-81dc4b729fa3: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, dorsal view (syn- or lectotype of Platyphyma mexicanum). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518742; 40f67018-908b-465b-bae5-81dc4b729fa3: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (syn- or lectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518742; 40f67018-908b-465b-bae5-81dc4b729fa3: Image Carbonell, C.S. [probably mirror image]. female, dorsal view (syn- or lectotype of Platyphyma mexicanum). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518742; 40f67018-908b-465b-bae5-81dc4b729fa3: Image Carbonell, C.S. female head and pronotum, lateral view (syn- or lectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (23)

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861: 157.
Platyphyma mexicanum Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861: 224.
Syntype; 40f67018-908b-465b-bae5-81dc4b729fa3; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Mexico: Veracruz: Orizaba

Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861 in Hollier, 2012: 335.
Pedies virescens Saussure, 1861 in Mariño-Pérez, Fontana & Woller, 2018: 560.

References (15)

Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1861) Orthopterologische Studien. I. Beiträge zu Darwin's Theorie über die Entstehung der Arten. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 11, 221–228. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55295#page/391/mode/1up
Saussure, H.L.F.de (1861) Orthoptera nova americana (Diagnoses praeliminares). II. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, 2(13), 126–130, 156–164, 313–324, 397–402. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20623#page/138/mode/1up

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

Thomas, C. (1873) Part II: Acrididae of North America not found in the United States. In Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 5, pp. 191–262. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18502#page/207/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. (1897) Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acrididae) with special reference to North American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 20(1124), 1–421. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/revisionoforthop00scudrich

Bruner, L. (1908) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 249–342. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm

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

Hebard, M. (1917) Notes on Mexican Melonopli. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 69, 251–275. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofacad69acad

Hebard, M. (1932) New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 58(3), 201–371. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4268_003#page/2/mode/1up

Descamps, M. (1975) Étude du peuplement acridien de l'état de Veracruz (Mexique). Folia Entomologica Mexicana, 31-32, 3–98.

Ronderos, R.A. & Carbonell, C.S. (1994) Sobre el género mexicano Pedies Saussure, y las especies sudamericanas atribuidas al mismo (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Melanoplinae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 53(1-4), 83–99. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/32535

Cigliano, M.M. & Otte, D. (2003) Revision of the genus Pedies Saussure (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 129(1), 111–132.

Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2008) Chapulines, Langostas, Grillos y Esperanzas de México. Guía fotográfica - Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets & Katydids of Mexico. Photographic guide. World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy, 1–272 pp. Available at http://biodiversityassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Grasshoppers-Locusts-Crickets-Katydids-Of-Mexico.pdf

Hollier, J.A. (2012) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, part 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(3), 303–339. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185629#page/47/mode/1up
Mariño-Pérez, R., Fontana, P. & Woller, D.A. (2018) Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: A new species of Pedies Saussure (Acrididae: Melanoplinae) with comments on the unusual blue coloration on the abdomens of females and live specimen images for three other congenerics. Zootaxa, 4459(3), 551–564.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Alluding to dark greenish coloration.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	5	6