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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898

chaparral false katydid
Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898: male (California). (Otu).
Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898: male (California). (Otu).
Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898: male, dorsal view (California). (Otu).
Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898: male pronotum, lateral view (California). (Otu).
Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898: male cerci (California). (Otu).
Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898: male. (Otu).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898: 288.
  • Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898 in Kirby, 1906: 447.
  • Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898 in Rentz & Weissman, 1981: 89.
  • Platylyra californica Scudder, 1898 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 168, Plate 36.

References (6)

  • 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.
  • Caudell, A.N. (1908) Notes on some western Orthoptera, with the description of one new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 34, 71–81. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53517#page/99/mode/1up
  • Grant, H.J., Jr. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1966) The katydid genus Platylyra (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 42, 81–88. Available at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/s001lgr66.pdf
  • 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
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Weissman, D.B. (1981) Faunal affinities, systematics, and bionomics of the Orthoptera of the California Channel Islands. University of California Publications in Entomology, 94, vii-xiii, 1–240. Available at https://orthsoc.org/sina/i00lrw81.pdf
  • Scudder, S.H. (1898) The orthopteran group Scudderiae. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 33, 271–291. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22279#page/305/mode/1up

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to distribution in California.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001