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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure, 1899

CollectionObject 1505327; b21f3ff1-6e51-4677-8560-d172dcd7eef3: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505327; b21f3ff1-6e51-4677-8560-d172dcd7eef3: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505327; b21f3ff1-6e51-4677-8560-d172dcd7eef3: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505327; b21f3ff1-6e51-4677-8560-d172dcd7eef3: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505327; b21f3ff1-6e51-4677-8560-d172dcd7eef3: male, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505327; b21f3ff1-6e51-4677-8560-d172dcd7eef3: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Brachytrypus [sic] membranaceus var. colossea Saussure, 1899: 601.

    Holotype; male; b21f3ff1-6e51-4677-8560-d172dcd7eef3; deposited at: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum (SMF); Madagascar

  • Brachytrypes [sic] membranaceus colossea Saussure, 1899 in Kirby, 1906: 22.
  • Brachytrupes membranaceus colosseus Saussure, 1899 in Hugel, 2022: 998.
  • Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure, 1899 in Simeu-Noutchom, Heller, Um Nyobe & Kekeunou, 2023: 384.

References (6)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1899) Orthoptera. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Reisen in Madagaskar und Ostafrika in den Jahren 1889-95 von Dr. A. Voeltzkow. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 21, 567–664. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85045#page/613/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Chopard, L. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 1–213.
  • Hollier, J.A., Bruckner, H. & Heads, S.W. (2013) 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 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(3), 445–535. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/202907#page/103/mode/1up
  • Hugel, S. (2022) Orthoptera: Caelifera and Ensifera, grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, valala, angely. In S.M. Goodman (Ed.). The New Natural History of Madagascar (Ed. S.M. Goodman). Princeton University Press. S.M. Goodman, Vol. 1, 996–1014 pp.
  • Simeu-Noutchom, A., Heller, K.-G., Um Nyobe, P.C.A. & Kekeunou, S. (2023) Taxonomy review of the genus Brachytrupes (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with the description of a new species and key to the species. Zootaxa, 5336(3), 373–388. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.4

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