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Schistocerca shoshone (Thomas, 1873)

CollectionObject 2775427; d56600d1-9708-417e-9680-3b4779e28d60, CNCI 981680: Schistocerca shoshone. female, dorsal View. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2775427; d56600d1-9708-417e-9680-3b4779e28d60, CNCI 981680: Schistocerca shoshone. female, dorsal View. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2775427; d56600d1-9708-417e-9680-3b4779e28d60, CNCI 981680: Schistocerca shoshone. female, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2775427; d56600d1-9708-417e-9680-3b4779e28d60, CNCI 981680: Schistocerca shoshone. labels. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (30)

  • Acridium shoshone Thomas, 1873: 295, 296. (valid)

    Neotype; male; a61c8c9c-dbdb-4cd4-b900-53d8fb95233c; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Utah: Cache: Logan

  • Acridium shoshone Thomas, 1873 in Townsend, 1893: 30.
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  • Schistocerca shoshone (Thomas, 1873) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 143.
  • Schistocerca shoshone (Thomas, 1873) in Song, 2004: 430.

Nomenclature references (22)

  • 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
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) Preliminary note for the revision of the genus Schistocerca Stål, 1873 (Orth. Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 41, 31–43. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/161109
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1974) Genus Schistocerca (Acridomorpha, Insecta). Series Entomologica, 10, 238 pp.
  • Hebard, M. (1927) Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 79, 1–11.
  • 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
  • Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part II. A list of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Arizona with new records and corrections of the literature subsequent to 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61(3), 269–316. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4271_003#page/119/mode/1up
  • Henderson, W.W. (1943) The genus Schistocerca in Utah. Proceedings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 20, 99–103.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1908) An orthopterological reconnaissance of the southwestern United States. Part I: Arizona. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 60, 365–402. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30138
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part II: New Mexico and western Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 111–175. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84740#page/119/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part III: California and Nevada. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 409–483. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26288106#page/417/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(1), 60–128. Available at http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca64acad/page/60/mode/2up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1904) Notes on Orthoptera from Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 562–575. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30096#page/612/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Notes on Orthoptera from southern Arizona, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59, 24–81. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=DY9l7J6HxsAC
  • 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
  • Scudder, S.H. (1901) Alphabetical index to North American Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 6, 1–436. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31824#page/15/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • Strohecker, H.F., Middlekauff, W.W. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1968) The grasshoppers of California (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 10, 1–177. Available at http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis10.pdf
  • Sword, G.A. & Chapman, R.F. (1994) Monophagy in a polyphagous grasshopper, Schistocerca shoshone. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 73(3), 255–264.
  • Thomas, C. (1873) Descriptions of new species of Orthoptera collected in Nevada, Utah and Arizona by the expedition under Lt. G. M. Wheeler. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 25, 295–297. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84729#page/307/mode/1up
  • Townsend, C.H.T. (1893) On the injurious and other locusts of New Mexico and Arizona. Insect Life, 6, 29–32. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/191483#page/41/mode/1up

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

The Shoshone are an Indigenous people from the southwest of the United States. "Shoshone" comes from the Shoshone word sosoni', which is a plural form of sonipe, a type of high-growing grass.

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