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Species

Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888)

Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Image Carbonell, C.S. female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Image Carbonell, C.S. female, frontal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 120. male habitus. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 123. female head and pronotum, lateral view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 122. male head, frontal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 125. female head, frontal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 121. male head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 124. female head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 129. male abdomen tip, lateral view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 135. endophallus, dorsal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 134. endophallus, lateral view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 130. phallic complex, ateral view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 127. female subgenital plate, dorsal view. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 126. spermateca duct. (Otu).
Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888): Fig. 128. spermatheca. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male with labels. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male head and pronotum, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male abdomen tip, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male head and pronotum, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male head, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male abdomen tip, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male head and pronotum, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498699; 030eafed-5045-4cf5-b2b3-b3cec72c93da: male abdimen tip, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female with labels. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female head and pronotum, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female head, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female abdomen tip, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female head and pronotum, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female abdomen tip, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female abdomen tip, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498700; 7a89fd7a-e56b-4c03-80b6-015f831b3428: female head and pronotum, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506190; 162e58ee-2f38-4fe8-a4b8-788fc5ed5957: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, lateral view (syntype or lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506190; 162e58ee-2f38-4fe8-a4b8-788fc5ed5957: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, dorsal view (syntype or lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506190; 162e58ee-2f38-4fe8-a4b8-788fc5ed5957: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, frontal view (syntype or lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506190; 162e58ee-2f38-4fe8-a4b8-788fc5ed5957: Image Carbonell, C.S. labels (syntype or lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506637; 983b312e-5917-443e-a539-f60588f21157: Image Carbonell, C.S. female head and pronotum, dorsal view (syntype or lectoallotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506637; 983b312e-5917-443e-a539-f60588f21157: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, frontal view (syntype or lectoallotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506637; 983b312e-5917-443e-a539-f60588f21157: Image Carbonell, C.S. female abodmen, lateral view (syntype or lectoallotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506637; 983b312e-5917-443e-a539-f60588f21157: Image Carbonell, C.S. labels (syntype or lectoallotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1513350; 1cd04424-bfc4-4488-ad4b-6afb3a6972f2: male. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Phrynotettix peruviana Saussure, 1888: 30.

    Syntype; male; 162e58ee-2f38-4fe8-a4b8-788fc5ed5957; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Peru: Pasco: Junin. Syntype; female; 983b312e-5917-443e-a539-f60588f21157; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Peru: Pasco: Junin

  • Tristira peruviana (Saussure, 1888) in Kirby, 1910: 212.
  • Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888) in Hollier, 2012: 326.
  • Punacris peruviana (Saussure, 1888) in Hemp, Ritchie, Cigliano, Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz, Linde, Uluar, Oumarou-Ngoute & Song, 2025: 491.

References (7)

  • 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
  • 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
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1942) The locusts of the South American generic group Tristriae (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 68, 31–99. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4278_001#page/35/mode/1up
  • Cigliano, M.M. (1989) Revisión sistemática de la familia Tristiridae (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción, 60, 51–110. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31654600#page/57/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • 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
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after distribution in Peru.

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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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Species1023