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Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888

Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: male, frontal view. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: male, frontal view. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: male. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: male (La Selva, Costa Rica). (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: female (La Selva, Costa Rica). (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: Pg. 82, Pl.2, Fig. 25. female, body length 43, pronotum 11, fastigium 11, ovipositor 58, tegmen 49 mm. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: fastigium of vertex, lateral view. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: left mirror area. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: mirror. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: male stridulatory file. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: male cerci. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: hind tarsus. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: figures from Naskrecki 2000. (Otu).
Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: records in Costa Rica. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1576550; f3b51726-c903-472b-8130-7982fc3fc4be: labels. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1576550; f3b51726-c903-472b-8130-7982fc3fc4be: male, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1576550; f3b51726-c903-472b-8130-7982fc3fc4be: male, head, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1576550; f3b51726-c903-472b-8130-7982fc3fc4be: male, frontal view. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (17)

  • Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888: 48.

    Syntype; female; 6cc6b382-b24f-4d4e-b857-f2db2c801698; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Costa Rica: Guaitil de ... (?). Syntype; female; f4d3a1e7-2154-496d-8ac7-04a3c5ee7312; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Nicaragua

  • Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888 in Redtenbacher, 1891: 342.
  • Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888 in Hollier, 2011: 388.
  • Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet, 1888 in Naskrecki, 2017: 67, 76, 77, 85.

References (17)

  • Pictet, A. (1888) Locustides nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée de Genève. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 30(6), 1–84. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50100#page/664/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de & Pictet, A. (1898) Insecta Orthoptera (Orthoptera Genuina). Fam. Locustidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1, 345–456. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1903) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Mexico and Central America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 29(1), 1–34. Available at https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4239_001#page/6/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1905) Notes on the Orthoptera of Costa Rica, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 57, 790–843. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30015#page/878/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
  • 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. Copiphorinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 139, 50 pp., 6 pls. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/138357#page/7/mode/1up
  • Bruner, L. (1915) Notes on tropical American Tettigonoidea (Locustodea). Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 9(3-4), 284–404. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/annalsofcarnegie09carn
  • Hebard, M. (1927) Studies in the Tettigoniidae of Panama (Orthoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 53(2), 79–156. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4263_002#page/31/mode/1up
  • Morris, G.K. (1980) Calling display and mating behaviour of Copiphora rhinoceros Pictet (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae. Animal Behaviour, 28, 42–51.
  • Nickle, D.A. (1992) Katydids of Panama (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). In Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York & Tokyo. pp. 142–184, 649, 658.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2000) Katydids of Costa Rica. Vol. 1. Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids. The Orthopterists' Society at The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1–164 pp.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2005) The Smaller Majority. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 278 pp.
  • Barranco, P. (2010) Ortópteros de la Reserva Biológica Alberto Manuel Brenes (San Ramón, Costa Rica). I. Anostostomatidae y Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 46, 509–517.
  • Hollier, J.A. (2011) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Alphonse Pictet (alone, and with Henri de Saussure) with an account of the primary type material present in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 118(2), 345–400. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43718437
  • Naskrecki, P. (2017) Hidden Kingdom. Cornell University Press, 207 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Alluding to the long and pointed fastigium resembling the horn of a rhinoceros.

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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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