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Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851)

Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851): XI-2000. female (Chile, Coquimbo, S Vicuña - as Chilacris maculipennis). (Otu).
Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851): XI-2000. female (Chile, Coquimbo, S Vicuña - as Chilacris maculipennis). (Otu).
Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851): Fig. 39.1. male, dorsal view (Chilacris maculipennis). (Otu).
Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851): male habitus. (Otu).
Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851): male head, frontal view. (Otu).
Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851): female head, frontal view. (Otu).
Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851): female, genital segment, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1513123; c676812c-3c47-497b-80e5-3d3ebb674d32: female, lateral view (allotype of Chilacris maculipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1513123; c676812c-3c47-497b-80e5-3d3ebb674d32: labels (allotype of Chilacris maculipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540738; 7ebb29c1-0b99-49c9-89ae-6cb26f4dd34d: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540738; 7ebb29c1-0b99-49c9-89ae-6cb26f4dd34d: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540738; 7ebb29c1-0b99-49c9-89ae-6cb26f4dd34d: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, frontal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (28)

  • Eremobius lutescens Blanchard, 1851: 81.
  • Eremobius lutescens Blanchard, 1851 in Philippi, 1863: 242.
  • Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851) in Pizarro-Luna, Alfaro, Elgueta & Pizarro-Araya, 2024: 5, 7.
  • Elasmoderus lutescens (Blanchard, 1851) in Hemp, Ritchie, Cigliano, Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz, Linde, Uluar, Oumarou-Ngoute & Song, 2025: 492.

References (22)

  • Blanchard, C.É. (1851) Fauna chilena. Orden VI. Ortópteros. In Historia física y politica de Chile: Vol. 6 (Zool.). Museo de historia natural de Santiago, Paris & Chile. pp. 5–85. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54591#page/5/mode/1up
  • Philippi, R.A. (1863) Catálogo de los insectos recogidos. In Anales de la Universidad de Chile. Vol. 23, pp. 437–479.
  • Philippi, R.A. (1863) Verzeichniss der im Museum von Santiago befindlichen chilenischen Orthoperen. Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 21, 217–245. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103060#page/231/mode/1up
  • Walker, F. (1870) 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
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1884) Prodromus Oedipodiorum, Insectorum ex Ordine Orthopterorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 28(9), 1–254, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38465
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (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
  • Liebermann, J. (1943) Géneros y especias nuevos de acridoideos chilenos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 11(5), 400–410, 1 pls. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/56802
  • Liebermann, J. (1943) Lista definitiva de los Acridoideos de Chile. Boletín del Departamento de Sanidad Vegetal, 2(2), 133–139. [1942]
  • Liebermann, J. (1945) Los Acridoideos de Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 48, 161–316. [1944] Available at http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1944/1/Liebermann_1944.pdf
  • Liebermann, J. (1954) Notas de orthopterología chilena, con la descripción de una nueva especie de Philippiacris Lieb., Ph. wagenknechti. Revista de la Universidad Católica de Chile, 39(1), 173–184.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1961) A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 10(9), 351–419. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2242565
  • Toro, H. (1972) Notas biológicas sobre la langosta de Combarbala (Philippiacris rabiosus Phil.). Idesia, 2, 133–136.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1975) Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects. E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon, 1–171 pp.
  • Lafuente, N., Borja, H. & Alves Dos Santos, C.M. (1977) Citotaxonomia y comportamiento meiotico en Elasmoderus rabiosus (Liebermann). Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso, 10, 201–203.
  • Cigliano, M.M., Ronderos, R.A. & Kemp, W.P. (1989) Revision of the genus Elasmoderus Saussure (Orthoptera: Tristiridae). The Canadian Entomologist, 121(3), 225–243.
  • Peña, L.E. (1996) Introducción al estudio de los insectos de Chile. Editorial Universitaria.
  • Elgueta, M., Camousseight, A. & Carbonell, C.S. (1999) Catálogo de Orthoptera (Insecta) de Chile. Publicación ocasional - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Chile), 54, 1–60. Available at http://publicaciones.mnhn.gob.cl/668/articles-71109_archivo_01.pdf
  • Alfaro, F.M., Pizarro-Araya, J., Cepeda-Pizarro, J. & Bodini, A. (2011) Composición y distribución del ensamble de Orthoptera (Insecta) en una cuenca árida del norte-centro de Chile. Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Available at http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/objetos_digitales/3904/pizarro-araya.pdf
  • Alfaro, F.M., Pizarro-Araya, J., Letelier, L. & Cepeda-Pizarro, J. (2013) Distribución geográfica de los ortópteros (Insecta: Orthoptera) presentes en las provincias biogeográficas de Atacama y Coquimbo (Chile). Revista de Geografía Norte Grande, 56, 235–250. Available at http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-34022013000300013&script=sci_arttext
  • Montemayor, S.I., Melo, M.C., Scattolini, M.C., Pocco, M.E., del Río, M.G., Dellapé, G., Scheibler, E.E., Roig, S.A., Cazorla, C.G. & Dellapé, P.M. (2017) The fate of endemic insects of the Andean region under the effect of global warming. PLOS One, 12(10 e0186655). Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0186655
  • Pizarro-Luna, M., Alfaro, F.M., Elgueta, M. & Pizarro-Araya, J. (2024) Natural history of the genus Elasmoderus Saussure, 1888 (Orthoptera: Tristiridae), an endemic and eremic element of the transitional coastal desert of Chile. Insects, 15(513), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15070513
  • Hemp, C., Ritchie, J.M., Cigliano, M.M., Heller, K.-G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Linde, J.B., Uluar, O., Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Song, H. (2025) Out of sight, out of mind? Ixalidiidae, a new family of African forest grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) revealed by molecular phylogenetics and genital morphology. Zoosystema, 47(24), 489–553. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a24

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