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Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915

Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: male. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: male. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: female. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: female, green color form. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: female, yellow color form. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: male. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: stridulatory file. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: Pl. XXI, Fig. 1 (after type). female (body length 13.5 mm, ovipositor 30.1 mm). (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: Pl. XXI, Fig. 4. female, distal tip of hind tibia, internal view. (Otu).
Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: Pl. XXII, Fig. 11 (after type). female, outline of cephalic view of vertex. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522118; a11b64c4-afc0-4cf5-a3a1-9406e6599570: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522118; a11b64c4-afc0-4cf5-a3a1-9406e6599570: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522118; a11b64c4-afc0-4cf5-a3a1-9406e6599570: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915: 287.

    Holotype; female; a11b64c4-afc0-4cf5-a3a1-9406e6599570; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Mexico: Nayarit: Tepic

  • Conocephalus leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915 in Hebard, 1932: 336.
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  • Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915 in Fontana, Mariño-Pérez & Woller, 2013: 442.
  • Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn & Hebard, 1915 in Rubio & Braun, 2024: 119.

References (7)

  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2008) Chapulines, Langostas, Grillos y Esperanzas de México. Guía fotográfica - Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets & Katydids of Mexico. Photographic guide. World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy, 1–272 pp. Available at http://biodiversityassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Grasshoppers-Locusts-Crickets-Katydids-Of-Mexico.pdf
  • Fontana, P., Mariño-Pérez, R. & Woller, D.A. (2013) Studies in Mexican Tettigoniidae: A new genus of Copiphorini and the first description of male Conocephalus (Aphauropus) leptopterus Rehn and Hebard and the female of Insara acutitegmina Fontana, Buzzetti, Mariño-Pérez & García García. Zootaxa, 3737(4), 429–453.
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  • García García, P.L. & Fontana, P. (2006) Diversidad y fenología de los ortópteros del Parque Nacional El Cimatario, Querétaro. Entomología Mexicana, 5(2), 249–254.
  • Hebard, M. (1932) New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 58(3), 201–371. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4268_003#page/2/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1915) Studies in American Tettigoniidae VI. A synopsis of the species of the genus Conocephalus found in America south of the southern border of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 41(2), 225–290, Pl. XXI-XXIV. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4251_002#page/158/mode/1up
  • Rubio, L. & Braun, H. (2024) A new species of Conocephalus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from Argentina with extraordinarily broad-band ultrasound calling song. Zootaxa, 5437(1), 115–120. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.7

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek λεπτός = minute and πτερόν = wing, in allusion to the minute, aborted and wholly concealed tegmina found in the female sex of this extraordinary species.

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