species

Schistocerca obscura (Fabricius, 1798)

Obscure Bird Grasshopper

Schistocerca obscura (Fabricius, 1798): female. (Otu).

Schistocerca obscura (Fabricius, 1798): Fig. 25. male subgenital plate. (Otu).

Nomenclature (20)

Gryllus obscurus Fabricius, 1798: 194.
Neotype; male; bc4cf0f7-8542-4846-969e-56126c565fa0; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); United States: Kansas
Acridium olivaceum Serville, 1838: 666.
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Schistocerca obscura (Fabricius, 1798) in Song, 2004: 432.
Schistocerca obscura (Fabricius, 1798) in Fontana, Buzzetti, Mariño-Pérez, Castellanos-Vargas, Monge-Rodríguez & Cano-Santana, 2017: 110.

Nomenclature references (19)

Amédégnato, C., Ruiz-Baliu, A. & Carbonell, C.S. (1995) Acridiofauna Cubana (Orthoptera): sinopsis de su taxonomía y origen. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 39(3), 683–708.
Bolívar, I. (1888) Enumération des Orthoptères de l'île de Cuba. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France, 1, 116–164. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/title/9485#page/132/mode/1up
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Capinera, J.L., Scherer, C.W. & Squitier, J.M. (2001) Grasshoppers of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 131 pp. Available at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/ghopper/ghopper.html

Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) In Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 249 pp.

Caudell, A.N. (1903) Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 26, 775–809, Plate 55. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32571#page/903/mode/1up

Dirsh, V.M. (1974) Genus Schistocerca (Acridomorpha, Insecta). Series Entomologica, 10, 238 pp.

Fabricius, J.C. (1798) Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae, Suppl.

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.

Gundlach, J. (1887) Apuntes para la fauna puerto-riqueña. VIII Insectos. Orden Ortópteros. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 137–150. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36189#page/141/mode/1up

Gundlach, J. (1891) Ortopteros. In Contribución a la Entomología Cubaña. G. Montiel, La Habana. Vol. 2, Issue 4, 289–396 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105019#page/1/mode/1up

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

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1905) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of south and central Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 57, 29–55, Pl. 1. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30015

Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Records of Orthoptera from the vicinity of Brownsville, Texas. Entomological News, 18, 209–212. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84871#page/243/mode/1up

Richman, D.B., Lightfoot, D.C., Sutherland, C.A. & Ferguson, J.W.H. (1993) A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico, Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service Handbook, 7, 1–112. Available at http://nmsu.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/AgCircs/id/63174

Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell, T.D.A. (1902) A first list of the Orthoptera of New Mexico. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 9, 1–60. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88768#page/23/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. (1899) The orthopteran genus Schistocerca. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 34(17), 441–476. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35730#page/493/mode/1up

Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314

Song, H. (2004) Revision of the Alutacea Group of genus Schistocerca (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cytracanthacridinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 97(3), 420–436.
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

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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	3	4