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Diponthus nigroconspersus (Stål, 1861)

CollectionObject 1529629; c046166a-18dc-47b4-96fa-5ec5c757b6ca: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (holotype of Acridium nigroconspersum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529629; c046166a-18dc-47b4-96fa-5ec5c757b6ca: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (holotype of Acridium nigroconspersum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529629; c046166a-18dc-47b4-96fa-5ec5c757b6ca: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, dorsal view (holotype of Acridium nigroconspersum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529629; c046166a-18dc-47b4-96fa-5ec5c757b6ca: female, dorsal view (holotype of Acridium nigroconspersum). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Acridium (Diponthus) nigroconspersum Stål, 1861: 327, 328. (valid in Pocco, Lange & Cigliano, 2023: 48)
  • Acridium (Diponthus) nigro-conspersum [sic] Stål, 1861: 327.

    Holotype; female; c046166a-18dc-47b4-96fa-5ec5c757b6ca; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Uruguay: Montevideo

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  • Acridium (Diponthus) nigroconspersum Stål, 1861 (subjective synonym of Acridium cribratum Serville, 1838) in Carbonell, Cigliano & Lange, 2006
  • Diponthus nigroconspersus (Stål, 1861) in Pocco, Lange & Cigliano, 2023: 48.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Carbonell, C.S., Cigliano, M.M. & Lange, C.E. (2006) Especies de acridomorfos (Orthoptera) de Argentina y Uruguay / Acridomorph (Orthoptera) species of Argentina and Uruguay. The Orthopterists' Society.
  • 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
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  • 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
  • Liebermann, J. (1939) Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 10, 125–230. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/58220
  • Pocco, M.E., Lange, C.E. & Cigliano, M.M. (2023) Relationships and taxonomy of the genus Diponthus Stål (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Romaleidae). Zootaxa, 5336(1), 33–81. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.1.2
  • 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
  • Stål, C. (1861) Orthoptera species novas descripsit. In Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi). Utgifna of K. Svenska Vetanskaps Akademien (P.A. Norstedt and Soner), Stockholm. Vol. 2, Issue 1, 299–350 pp. [1860] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20004#page/311/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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Allusion to black mottling.

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