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Vetralla quadrata Walker, 1869

CollectionObject 1517008; 8c5e2803-eeb1-45c7-86fc-02f5e623cc92: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517008; 8c5e2803-eeb1-45c7-86fc-02f5e623cc92: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517008; 8c5e2803-eeb1-45c7-86fc-02f5e623cc92: male pronotum and stridulatory apparatus (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, dorsal view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, dorsal view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, lateral view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, lateral view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, lateral view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, lateral view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, frontal view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male, lateral view (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: stridulatory area (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: male subgenital plate (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1542386; 25dd672d-f14f-45c3-8a56-4e4eff129de7, DORSA BTmecdifHTM: labels (holotype of Mecopoda difformis). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (13)

  • Vetralla quadrata Walker, 1869: 392.

    Holotype; male; 8c5e2803-eeb1-45c7-86fc-02f5e623cc92; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Sri Lanka

  • Mecopoda difformis Karsch, 1886: 111, 115.

    Holotype; male; DORSA BTmecdifHTM; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Sri Lanka

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  • Vetralla quadrata Walker, 1869 in Beier, 1966: 303.
  • Mecopoda difformis Karsch, 1886 (subjective synonym of Vetralla quadrata Walker, 1869) in Beier, 1966: 303.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Beier, M. (1966) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Meconematinae, Mecopodinae, Phyllophorinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 9, 247–342 pp.
  • Caudell, A.N. (1916) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Mecopodinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 171, 1–32, pls 1–4. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105422#page/57/mode/1up
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  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1886) Orthopterologische Beiträge I. Die Mekopodiden des Berliner zoologischen Museums. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 30, 107–118 pl. 4. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100061
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1892) Übersicht der von Dr. Paul Preuss auf der Barombi-Station in Kamerun gesammelten Locustodeen. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 36(2), 317–346. [1891] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101306
  • Kirby, W.F. (1891) Notes on the orthopterous family Mecopodidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 405–412. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105347#page/505/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
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1892) Monographische Uebersicht der Mecopodiden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 42, 183–224. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48404#page/305/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Some Orthoptera of the families Mantidae, Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 14(1), 85–114.
  • 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

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