CollectionObject 1523784; 4c96a9a0-a388-4402-a063-3b348d3ee625: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1523784; 4c96a9a0-a388-4402-a063-3b348d3ee625: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1523784; 4c96a9a0-a388-4402-a063-3b348d3ee625: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1523784; 4c96a9a0-a388-4402-a063-3b348d3ee625: male, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1523784; 4c96a9a0-a388-4402-a063-3b348d3ee625: male, labels (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536037; a76b5c13-deca-4cd8-a2ae-0152bdfa306a: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536037; a76b5c13-deca-4cd8-a2ae-0152bdfa306a: Image Carbonell, C.S. male head and pronotum, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536037; a76b5c13-deca-4cd8-a2ae-0152bdfa306a: Image Carbonell, C.S. male abdomen, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536037; a76b5c13-deca-4cd8-a2ae-0152bdfa306a: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536037; a76b5c13-deca-4cd8-a2ae-0152bdfa306a: Image Carbonell, C.S. male head and pronotum, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536037; a76b5c13-deca-4cd8-a2ae-0152bdfa306a: Image Carbonell, C.S. male abdomen, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536037; a76b5c13-deca-4cd8-a2ae-0152bdfa306a: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, frontal view. (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Lectotype; male; 4c96a9a0-a388-4402-a063-3b348d3ee625; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Guatemala

Nomenclature (18)

  • Prosphena scudderi Bolívar, 1884: 447.
  • Prosphena scudderii Bolívar, 1884 in Karsch, 1888: 343.
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  • Prosphena scudderi Bolívar, 1884 in Hollier, 2016: 23.
  • Prosphena scudderi Bolívar, 1884 in Mariño-Pérez, Woller, Foquet & Selking, 2016: 29.

Nomenclature references (18)

  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1909) Orthoptera Fam. Acrididae. Subfam. Pyrgomorphinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 90, 1–58 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/138363#page/7/mode/1up
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  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Monzón-Sierra, J. (2014) Studies in Guatemalan Caelifera: New grasshoppers and monkey grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea & Eumastacoidea) and an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 3857(3), 379–411.
  • Flook, P.K. & Rowell, C.H.F. (1997) The phylogeny of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) as deduced from mtrRNA gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 8, 89–103.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • Hollier, J.A. (2016) The type specimens of Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Ignacio Bolívar and deposited in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 123(1), 21–33. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/274396#page/27/mode/1up
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1888) Beiträge zu Bolivar's Monografia de los Pirgomorfinos. Entomologische Nachrichten, 14(21), 328–335, 340–346, 355–361. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42933
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1978) The American Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 36(1-4), 3–28. [1977] Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/41722
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1974) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth. Acridoidea). Part V. Tribes Schulthessiini, Taphronotini, Dictyophorini, Tagastini, Pseudomorphacridini, Atractomorphini, Spenariini and Omurini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 48, 203–294, pl. 1–7. [1972] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/164750
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Singh, A. & Akbar, S.S. (1964) A revision of the Mexican Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). I. Genera other than Sphenarium. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 116, 231–298.
  • Mariño-Pérez, R., Woller, D.A., Foquet, B. & Selking, R.T. (2016) Collecting in Costa Rica: in search of Orthoptera. Metaleptea, 36(3), 25–29. Available at http://140.247.96.247/orthsoc/pdf/met_36_3.pdf
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1905) A contribution to the knowledge of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) of Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 57(2), 400–454. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30015
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1951) The tribal position of certain genera of the Pyrgomorphinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomological News, 62(8), 241–244. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20188#page/283/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1953) Records and descriptions of Pyrgomorphinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae), with critical notes on certain genera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 79(3), 99–150.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (1987) The biogeography of Costa Rican acridid grasshoppers, in relation to their putative phylogenetic origins and ecology. In Evolutionary Biology of Orthopteroid Insects (Ellis Horwood series in entomology and acarology). Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, England. pp. 470–482.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
Asserted distribution
Collection object
Type material

Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Sunny scrubland with aromatic herb species.

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in genitive case
Etymology:

Named for the American entomologist and orthopterist Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837–1911).

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