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Amusurgus (Amusurgus) unicolor (Chopard, 1925)

CollectionObject 1517972; 20c0051d-adb9-4972-b3f9-11a9099eced1: dorsal view (type). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517972; 20c0051d-adb9-4972-b3f9-11a9099eced1: dorsal view (type). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517972; 20c0051d-adb9-4972-b3f9-11a9099eced1: lateral view (type). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517972; 20c0051d-adb9-4972-b3f9-11a9099eced1: labels (type). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Metioche unicolor Chopard, 1925: 526.

    Holotype; male; 20c0051d-adb9-4972-b3f9-11a9099eced1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Sri Lanka: Kandy: Peradeniya

  • Metioche unicolor Chopard, 1925 in Chopard, 1936: 49.
  • Amusurgus unicolor (Chopard, 1925) in Chopard, 1969: 291.
  • Amusurgus (Amusurgus) unicolor (Chopard, 1925) in Shishodia, Chandra & Gupta, 2010: 253.

References (6)

  • Chopard, L. (1925) The Gryllidae of Ceylon in the British Museum Collections. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 15, 505–536.
  • Chopard, L. (1936) The Tridactylidae and Gryllidae of Ceylon. Ceylon Journal of Science Biological Science), 20, 9–87. Available at http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.7321
  • Sandrasagara, T.R. (1954) Checklist of the Tridactylidae and Gryllidae (Insecta, Orthoptera) of Ceylon, with records of distribution. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 52, 540–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/186987#page/672/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • Chopard, L. (1969) Orthoptera. Vol. 2. Grylloidea. In The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xviii, 1–421. Available at https://archive.org/details/IndianGrylloidea
  • Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf

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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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