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Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854)

plains lubber grasshopper
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): female (Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, 8 September 2009). (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): female (Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, 8 September 2009). (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): nymph (9 miles north of Bridgeport, Nebraska, 26 June 2020). (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): Fig. 373. male, head, frontal view. (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): Fig. 375. male, head, lateral view. (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): Fig. 374. male, head, dorsal view. (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): Fig. 391. male, epiphalli, dorsal view. (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): Fig. 393. male, epiphalli, anterior view. (Otu).
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854): Fig. 398. female, spermatheca. (Otu).

Nomenclature (32)

  • Brachypeplus magnus Girard, 1854: 231.

    Holotype; male; 349cecb6-92af-47c0-8afa-6fdafb52c711; United States: Texas: Northern Texas

  • Brachypeplus magnus Girard, 1854 in Scudder, 1869: 20.
  • Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854) in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Buzzetti, Méndez-Gómez & Horta-Vega, 2013: 317-318.
  • Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854) in Barrientos-Lozano, 2019: 178-181.

References (27)

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  • Scudder, S.H. (1869) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of North America described previous to 1867. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 8, 89 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=llgtAAAAIAAJ
  • Scudder, S.H. (1876) List of the Orthoptera collected by Dr. A. S. Packard in Colorado and the neighboring Territories, during the Summer of 1875. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 2, 261–267. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100255#page/385/mode/1up
  • Sutton, W.S. (1900) The spermatocyte divisions in Brachystola magna. Kansas Univ. Quart., (A)9, 135–160, 4 pls.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sutton, W.S. (1902) On the morphology of the chromosome group in Brachystola magna. Biological Bulletin, 4(1), 24–39.
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  • 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
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  • Hebard, M. (1929) The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 303–425.
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. The American Midland Naturalist, 40, 521–663. [1949]
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1959) A review of the Romaleinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) found in America north of Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 111, 109–271.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1959) An analysis of the tribes of the Romaleinae with special reference to their internal genitalia (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 85, 233–271.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1961) A monograph of the Orthoptera of North America (north of Mexico). Volume 1. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 12, 1–255.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1986) The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, 14, 1–918. Available at http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/aac-aafc/agrhist/A42-42-1985-14-eng.pdf
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  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Buzzetti, F.M., Méndez-Gómez, B.R. & Horta-Vega, J.V. (2013) Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada. Ciudad de México, 388 pp.
  • Barrientos-Lozano, L. (2019) Chubby Grasshopper Brachystola magna (Girard, 1854) (Romaleidae). In Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World. China Agricultural University Press, Beijing. pp. 178–181.

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