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Batrachotetrix scutellaris (Walker, 1870)

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 51801354-0f8f-452c-903f-c80e7111f80d; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa

Nomenclature (16)

  • Trachypetra bufo White, 1846: 317. (homonym)

    Holotype; female; 7efe265f-2d4c-4fe2-9448-ae370db3e761; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa

  • Trachypetra bufo White, 1846 (secondary homonym of Batrachotetrix bufo Burmeister, 1838)
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  • Batrachotetrix scutellaris (Walker, 1870) in Dirsh, 1965: 83.
  • Batrachotettix [sic] whiti Saussure, 1888 (subjective synonym of Trachypetra scutellaris Walker, 1870) in Hollier, 2012: 336.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kaukerfe, Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte: Vulgo Orthoptera). In Handbuch der Entomologie. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. Vol. 2, Issue I-VIII, 397–756 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25467340#page/13/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
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  • Hollier, J.A. (2012) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, part 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(3), 303–339. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185629#page/47/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • 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
  • 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
  • White, A. (1846) List of Annulosa, (principally insects), found on the journey of Henry H. Methuen, Esq. In Life in the Wilderness. London. 307–318.
  • de Saussure, H. (1888) Additamenta ad Prodromum Oedipodiorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 30(1), 1–180. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50100#page/71/mode/1up
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Descendants and synonyms

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivescutellaris, scutellaris, scutellare
Etymology:

Latin for saucer-shaped, possibly referring to pronotum.

Batrachotetrix scutellaris (Walker, 1870)

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