Species

Odontoxiphidium apterum Morse, 1901

Wingless Meadow Katydid

Nomenclature (11)

Odontoxiphidium apterum Morse, 1901: 129.
Syntype (n= 12); male; 89ac3da3-3893-481e-9ca6-03b0cf19b7a4; United States: Florida: Saint Johns: Hastings
Odontoxiphidium apterum Morse, 1901 in Kirby, 1906: 283.

Odontoxiphidium apterum Morse, 1901 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 183, Plate 39.
Odontoxiphidium apterum Morse, 1901 in Woo, 2024: 102.

Morse, A.P. (1901) New North American Orthoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 33(5), 129–131. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22101#page/141/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

Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 249 pp.
Woo, B. (2024) A new species of meadow katydid (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalini) from the Apalachicola River Basin of Florida, USA. Zootaxa, 5523(1), 100–112. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5523.1.6

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Latin apterus, wingless, relating to the wingless female and the reduced tegmina in males.

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	0	1