species

Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869)

Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869): Pl. 3, Fig. 3 B. male head and prothorax, lateral view (Apioscelis gracilis). (Otu).

Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869): Pl. 3, Fig. 3 C. male abdomen tip. (Otu).

Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869): female (Iquitos, Peru). (Otu).

Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869): male (Iquitos, Peru). (Otu).

CollectionObject 1507107; 42044f68-a6c0-4c16-93c6-e9d8f38d809e: female, lateral view (syntype of Apioscelis gracilis). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1507107; 42044f68-a6c0-4c16-93c6-e9d8f38d809e: female, dorsal view (syntype of Apioscelis gracilis). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1507107; 42044f68-a6c0-4c16-93c6-e9d8f38d809e: labels (syntype of Apioscelis gracilis). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1507132; a04addb4-dc4f-4f71-97f6-3304fc0a8a72: male, lateral view (syntype of Apioscelis gracilis). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1507132; a04addb4-dc4f-4f71-97f6-3304fc0a8a72: male, dorsal view (syntype of Apioscelis gracilis). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1507132; a04addb4-dc4f-4f71-97f6-3304fc0a8a72: male, ventral view (syntype of Apioscelis gracilis). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1507132; a04addb4-dc4f-4f71-97f6-3304fc0a8a72: labels (syntype of Apioscelis gracilis). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518059; 9c93fa6c-2793-4132-9c12-bcddceff8c95, NHMUK015982146: labels (holotype of Proscopia granulosa). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1518059; 9c93fa6c-2793-4132-9c12-bcddceff8c95, NHMUK015982146: female, dorsal view (holotype of Proscopia granulosa). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (28)

Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869: 336.
Holotype; male; 28238160-e969-4b11-a1d8-b2b34d7ac5b7; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Peru: San Martín: Napo or Marañon river
Proscopia granulosa Walker, 1870: 492.
Holotype; female; NHMUK015982146; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Peru: Loreto: Nauta
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Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890: 99.
Syntypes (n= 2); female; e137ae09-3b84-4ac2-a4bc-add3f349624d; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Peru: Loreto: Alto Amazonas. Syntype; female; 42044f68-a6c0-4c16-93c6-e9d8f38d809e; deposited at: Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universitat Hamburg (ZMUH); Peru: Loreto: Alto Amazonas. Syntype; male; a04addb4-dc4f-4f71-97f6-3304fc0a8a72; deposited at: Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universitat Hamburg (ZMUH); Peru: Loreto: Alto Amazonas
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Scudder, 1897: 209.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 in Giglio-Tos, 1898: 39.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 in Bruner, 1910: 468.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 in Kirby, 1910: 85.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Kirby, 1910: 85.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Hebard, 1924: 168.
Proscopia granulosa Walker, 1870 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Hebard, 1924: 68.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Hebard, 1924: 163, 168.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Mello-Leitão, 1939: 421.
Proscopia granulosa Walker, 1870 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Mello-Leitão, 1939: 421.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Mello-Leitão, 1939: 421.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Weidner & Wagner, 1968: 128.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Liana, 1972: 390.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Carbonell, 1977: 8.
Proscopia granulosa Walker, 1870 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Carbonell, 1977: 8.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 (subjective synonym of Stiphra tuberculata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890) in Liana, 1980: 244.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Liana, 1980: 244.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Aguilar F., 1983: 87.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Jago, 1990: 261.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Buzzetti & Carotti, 2008: 47.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Hollier & Maehr, 2012: 46.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Westerduijn & Cadena-Castañeda, 2014: 3.
Apioscelis gracilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890 (subjective synonym of Proscopia bulbosa Scudder, 1869) in Dey & Husemann, 2018: 26.

Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Cardona-Granda, 2020: 212-213.
Apioscelis bulbosa (Scudder, 1869) in Queiroz, Rafael & Heleodoro, 2026: 49.

Nomenclature references (21)

Aguilar F., P.G. (1983) Especies de proscópidos registrados para el Perú. Revista Peruana de Entomología, 26(1), 85–88. Available at http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/BVRevistas/entomologia/v26/pdf/a15v26.pdf
Bruner, L. (1910) Report on an interesting collection of locusts from Peru. Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 39, 464–488. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84670#page/584/mode/1up
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Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1890) Monographie der Proscopiden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 40, 87–124. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47786#page/205/mode/1up

Buzzetti, F.M. & Carotti, G. (2008) Annotated list of the Caelifera of Ecuador (Biodiversity of South America). Memoirs on Biodiversity, 39–66.

Carbonell, C.S. (1977) Superfamily Proscopioidea, fam. Proscopiidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 17, pp. 1–29.

Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2020) Grasshoppers of Northwest South America. A Photo Guide. Volume 3 - The Amazonian Fauna. Blurb, 221 pp.

de Mello-Leitão, C. (1939) Estudio monográfico de los Proscopidos. Revista del Museo del La Plata, Sección Zoología, 1(8), 279–448. Available at http://publicaciones.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/rmlp/article/view/1588

de Queiroz, L.L., Rafael, J.A. & Heleodoro, R.A. (2026) Systematics of Proscopiini Serville, 1838 (Orthoptera: Proscopiidae: Proscopiinae), with description of four new genera. Zootaxa, 5855(1), 1–141. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5855.1.1

Dey, L.-S. & Husemann, M. (2018) An annotated catalogue of the types of short-horned grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Caelifera) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH). Evolutionary Systematics, 2, 21–30. Available at http://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/22127/

Giglio-Tos, E. (1898) Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nella Republica dell'Ecuador et regioni vicine. VI. Ortotteri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 13(311), 1–108. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42045#page/9/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1924) Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Ecuador. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 76, 109–248.

Hollier, J.A. & Maehr, M.D. (2012) An annotated catalogue of the type material of Orthoptera (Insecta) described by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl deposited in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(1), 27–75. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185302#page/29/mode/1up

Jago, N.D. (1990) The genera of the Central and South American grasshopper family Proscopiidae (Orthoptera: Acridomorpha). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 65(1), 249–307. [1989] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/172714

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

Liana, A. (1972) Études sur les Proscopiidae (Orthoptera). Annales Zoologici, Warszaw, 29(13), 381–459. Available at http://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/2352/edition/46224/content?ref=struct

Liana, A. (1980) Matériaux pour la connaissance des Proscopiidae (Orthoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 77, 229–260.

Scudder, S.H. (1869) Notes on Orthoptera collected by Prof. James Orton on either side of the Andes of Equatorial South America. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 12, 330–345. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37039#page/338/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. (1897) List of exotic Orthoptera described by S. H. Scudder, 1868-1879, with a revision of their nomenclature. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 27(12), 201–218. [1896] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/257772#page/321/mode/1up

Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich

Weidner, H. & Wagner, W. (1968) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg VII. Teil. Insecta IV. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 65, 123–179. Available at http://www.cenak.uni-hamburg.de/sammlungen/zoologie/entomologie/typenkatalog/weidner-1968-caelifera-homoptera.pdf
Westerduijn, R. & Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2014) Common Orthoptera from Pastaza, Ecuador. In Common Orthoptera from Pastaza, Ecuador. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1–5 pp. Available at http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guide_pdfs/634%20ECUADOR%20Common%20Orthoptera.pdf

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Alluding to the swollen prothorax or more likely the greatly swollen base of the hind femora.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	3	4