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Schistocerca literosa (Walker, 1870)

Small Painted Locust

Schistocerca literosa (Walker, 1870): Pl. 18, Fig. 7 (Chatham Island). male. (Otu).
Schistocerca literosa (Walker, 1870): Pl. 18, Fig. 7 (Chatham Island). male. (Otu).
Schistocerca literosa (Walker, 1870): Pl. 18, Fig. 8 (Hood Island, topotype). male (Schistocerca literosa punctata). (Otu).
Schistocerca literosa (Walker, 1870): Pl. 18, Fig. 9 (Tower Island, topotype). male (Schistocerca literosa hyalina). (Otu).

Nomenclature (24)

  • Acridium literosum Walker, 1870: 620.

    Holotype; male; 727b9595-e558-4ad7-9b03-b70999cac67e; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Galápagos

  • Acridium literosum Walker, 1870 in Butler, 1877: 88.
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  • Schistocerca literosa (Walker, 1870) in Peck, 2001: 130.
  • Schistocerca literosa (Walker, 1870) in Buzzetti & Carotti, 2008: 58.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Butler, A.G. (1877) Account of the zoological collection made during the visit of H.M.S. 'Petrel' to the Galapagos Islands. X. Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, and Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1877, 86–91. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90436#page/136/mode/1up
  • Buzzetti, F.M. & Carotti, G. (2008) Annotated list of the Caelifera of Ecuador (Biodiversity of South America). Memoirs on Biodiversity, 39–66.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1969) Acridoidea of the Galapagos Islands (Orthoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 23, 25–51. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis23entolond
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1974) Genus Schistocerca (Acridomorpha, Insecta). Series Entomologica, 10, 238 pp.
  • Hebard, M. (1920) Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Island, 1905-1906. Dermaptera and Orthoptera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 2(17), 311–346. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97652#page/377/mode/1up
  • Linsley, E.G. & Usinger, R.L. (1966) Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 33(7), 113–196.
  • Peck, S.B. (1996) Diversity and distribution of the orthopteroid insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 74(8), 1497–1510.
  • Peck, S.B. (2001) In Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NCR Research press, Ottawa. 1–278 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=mITflLCTmKMC
  • Scudder, S.H. (1893) The Orthoptera of the Galapagos Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 25, 1–25, Pl. 1–3. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/24909#page/9/mode/1up
  • Walker, F. (1870) In 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

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