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Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967

Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967: Extra long pronotum; color down midline pronotum. Barro Colorado Island, Panama. 20 January 2012. (Otu).
Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967: Extra long pronotum; color down midline pronotum. Barro Colorado Island, Panama. 20 January 2012. (Otu).
Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967: Drawing from Walker, TJ 1967. (Otu).
CollectionObject 2066832; e53fc876-4017-4b78-9baf-8be4077374fb, NHMUK015982406: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2066832; e53fc876-4017-4b78-9baf-8be4077374fb, NHMUK015982406: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2066832; e53fc876-4017-4b78-9baf-8be4077374fb, NHMUK015982406: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (4)

  • Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967: 792.

    Holotype; female; ca3e0498-f004-45fa-9bb3-ffc3110b7fc2; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Panama: Panama: Barro Colorado Island

  • Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967 in Chopard, 1968: 438.
  • Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967 in Nickle, 1992: 187.
  • Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967 in Collins, van Den Berghe & Carson, 2014

Nomenclature references (4)

  • 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.
  • Collins, N., Van Den Berghe, E. & Carson, L. (2014) Two new species of Neoxabea, three new species of Oecanthus, and documentation of two other species in Nicaragua (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 140, 163–184. Available at http://authors.entomology-aes.org/article/public/11.pdf
  • Nickle, D.A. (1992) The crickets and mole crickets of Panama (Orthoptera: Gryllidae and Gryllotalpidae). In Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York & Tokyo. pp. 185–197, 649, 658.
  • Walker, T.J. (1967) Revision of the Oecanthinae (Gryllidae: Orthoptera) of America south of the United States. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 60, 784–796. Available at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/AE60p784.pdf

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

The name prolatus = elongate refers to the unusually long pronotum.

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