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Mecopoda longipes (Thunberg, 1815)

CollectionObject 1586071; dbb0abce-3e02-4bfa-8c23-6c93deb82980: male, nymph, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1586071; dbb0abce-3e02-4bfa-8c23-6c93deb82980: male, nymph, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (3)

  • Locusta longipes Thunberg, 1815: 280. (nomen dubium)

    Holotype; immature; dbb0abce-3e02-4bfa-8c23-6c93deb82980; deposited at: Uppsala University (UZIU); possibly Japan

  • Mecopoda elongata var. longipes (Thunberg, 1815) in Beier, 1966: 299.
  • Mecopoda longipes (Thunberg, 1815) in Liu, Heller, Wang, Yang, Wu, Liu & Zhang, 2020: 298, 301.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Beier, M. (1966) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Meconematinae, Mecopodinae, Phyllophorinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 9, 247–342 pp.
  • Liu, C., Heller, K.-G., Wang, X.-S., Yang, Z., Wu, C., Liu, F. & Zhang, T. (2020) Taxonomy of a katydid genus Mecopoda Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae) from East Asia. Zootaxa, 4758(2), 296–310.
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1815) Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 5, 211–301. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5woZAAAAYAAJ
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Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to long legs.

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