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Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843)

Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): nymph. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): nymph. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): nymph, lateral view. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): male, frontal view. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): male cerci. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): Pl. 4, Fig. 6 (as Xiphidion melan). young nymph. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843): Pl. 4, Fig. 7 (as Xiphidion melan). adult, lateral view. (Otu).

Type specimen

Syntype; e1581b3e-f65e-4c40-aed4-628f7828dea2; deposited at: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC);

Nomenclature (40)

  • Locusta (Xiphidium [sic]) melaena Haan, 1843: 188, 189.

    Syntype; e1581b3e-f65e-4c40-aed4-628f7828dea2; deposited at: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC);

  • Xiphidium [sic] melaenum (Haan, 1843) in Walker, 1869: 275.
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  • Xiphidium [sic] (Xiphidium [sic]) melanum [sic] (Haan, 1843) (misspelling of Locusta (Xiphidium [sic]) melaena Haan, 1843)
  • Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melanus [sic] Haan, 1843 (misspelling of Locusta (Xiphidium [sic]) melaena Haan, 1843)

Nomenclature references (32)

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  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1957) Results of Chinese-Soviet zoological-botanical expeditions to south-western China 1955-1956: Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) of Yunnan. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 36, 401–417.
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  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1962) Results of the Chinese-Soviet zoological-botanical expeditions to south-western China 1955-1957. New or less known Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) from Szechuan and Yunnan. Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad], 30, 110–138.
  • Ebner, R. (1939) Tettigoniiden (Orthoptera) aus China. Lingnan Science Journal, 18, 293–302, 11 figs.
  • Han, L., Liu, H.-Y. & Shi, F. (2015) The investigation of Orthoptera from Huagaoxi Nature Reserve of Sichuan, China. International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies, 2(1), 17–24. Available at http://www.faunajournal.com/vol2Issue1/Issue_feb_2015/2-2-37.1.pdf
  • Harayama, S. (1941) Studies on the chromosomes in Locustidae. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University, 9, 1–157.
  • Hebard, M. (1922) Studies in Malayan, Melanesian and Australian Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 74, 121–299, pl. 11–22. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca74acad
  • Ingrisch, S. & Shishodia, M.S. (1998) New species and records of Tettigoniidae from India (Ensifera). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 71(3-4), 355–371. Available at http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=seg-001%3A1998%3A71%3A%3A275#372
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  • Jin, X. & Xia, K.-L. (1994) An index-catalogue of Chinese Tettigoniodea (Orthopteroidea: Grylloptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 3, 15–41.
  • Karny, H.H. (1907) Revisio Conocephalidarum. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft Wien, 4(3), 1–114. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/biophp/de/band_det.php?litnr=29695
  • Karny, H.H. (1912) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae Subfam. Conocephalinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 135, 1–17 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123362#page/3/mode/1up
  • Karny, H.H. (1915) H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Orthoptera et Oothecaria. Supplementa Entomologica, 4, 56–108. Available at http://sdei.senckenberg.de/~openaccess/01469.pdf
  • Karny, H.H. (1926) Beiträge zur malayischen Orthopterenfauna XV. Die Conocephalinen (s. l.) des Buitenzorger Museums. Hortus Botanicus Bogoriensis, Java (Treubia), 9(1-3), 162–254. Available at http://e-journal.biologi.lipi.go.id/index.php/treubia/article/view/1571
  • 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
  • Li, Y. & Shi, F. (2018) Notes on the genus Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) in Southwest China with description of one new species. Zootaxa, 4438(1), 148–158.
  • Liu, X.-W. & Yin, H. (2004) Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea and Stenopelmatoidea. In Insects from Mt. Shiwandashan Area of Guangxi. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 90–110 pp.
  • Makino, S. (1951) In An atlas of the chromosome number in animals: Vol. Press 1. Iowa State College, Ames. 113–119 pp.
  • Matsumura, S. & Shiraki, T. (1908) Locustiden Japans. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, 3(1), 1–80.
  • Nagar, R. & Swaminathan, R. (2016) Notes on the genus Conocephalus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Conocephalini) from India and description of two new species. Zootaxa, 4126(1), 1–43.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1891) Monographie der Conocephaliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 315–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/459/mode/1up
  • Shi, F. & Wang, P. (2015) The genus Conocephalus Thunberg (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) in Hainan, China with description of one new species. Zootaxa, 3994(1), 142–144.
  • 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
  • Tan, M.K. (2012) In Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 2): Suborder Ensifera. Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 70 pp. Available at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/ensifera_btnr_ccnr.pdf
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1936) Notes on a small collection of Orthoptera from Hupeh and Kiangsi with key to Mongolotettix Rehn. Lingnan Science Journal, 15(2), 201–218, pl. 12.
  • Tiwari, C. & Diwakar, S. (2019) Singers in the grass: call description of conehead katydids (family: Tettigoniidae) and observations on avoidance of acoustic overlap. Bioacoustics, 28(6), 522–538.
  • Walker, F. (1869) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 2, 225–423 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci02britrich
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (1998) Karyotype characteristics of katydid orthopterans (Ensifera, Tettigoniidae), and remarks on their evolution at different taxonomic levels. Folia biologica (Krakow), 46, 143–176.
  • Xiao, W., Mao, S.-L., Wang, J. & Huang, J. (2016) Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea) from Hunan Province, China. Part 2. Subfamilies Conocephalinae, Hexacentrinae and Meconematinae. Far Eastern Entomologist, 305, 13–24. Available at http://www.biosoil.ru/FEE/Publication/488
  • Zhou, M., Bi, W.-X. & Liu, X.-W. (2010) The genus Conocephalus (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) in China. Zootaxa, 2527, 49–60. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02527p060.pdf
  • de Haan, W. (1843) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Orthoptera. In Temminck [Ed.] Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen: Vol. 19/20. In commissie bij S. en J. Luchtmans, en C.C. van der Hoek, Leiden. 165–228 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/200624#page/647/mode/1up
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Descendants and synonyms

  • Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843)
    • =Xiphidium [sic] (Xiphidion) melan [sic] (Karny, 1907)
    • =Xiphidium [sic] (Xiphidium [sic]) melanum [sic] (Haan, 1843)
    • =Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melanus [sic] Haan, 1843
    • =Conocephalus (Xiphidion) melas [sic] Karny, 1912
    • =Xiphidium [sic] nigro-geniculatum Redtenbacher, 1891
Scrutiny
  • See also citations under melan and melas Karny. Braun, 2021
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivemelaenus, melaena, melaenum
Etymology:

Allusion to black coloration of tegmina.

Conocephalus (Anisoptera) melaenus (Haan, 1843)

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