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Dysonia melaleuca (Walker, 1869)

Dysonia melaleuca (Walker, 1869): Pl. 5, Figs. 3, 4. male cercus and subgenital plate. (Otu).
Dysonia melaleuca (Walker, 1869): Pl. 5, Figs. 3, 4. male cercus and subgenital plate. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, on drawer (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, anterior view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505918; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517519; 213b5b40-7796-4388-80a3-3db9c41bd678: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517519; 213b5b40-7796-4388-80a3-3db9c41bd678: male stridulatory area (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517519; 213b5b40-7796-4388-80a3-3db9c41bd678: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Valna melaleuca Walker, 1869: 358.

    Holotype; male; 213b5b40-7796-4388-80a3-3db9c41bd678; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Brazil: Rio de Janeiro

  • Aphidnia [sic] decolor Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 153,156.

    Holotype; female; 950a86cd-b0ae-480b-9a04-169fe1e0528c; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Brazil: Bahia

  • Dysonia melaleuca (Walker, 1869) in Gorochov, 2012: 302.
  • Dysonia melaleuca (Walker, 1869) in Cadena-Castañeda, Braun & García García, 2022: 60.

References (8)

  • Walker, F. (1869) 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
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1878) Monographie der Phaneropteriden. K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Wien, Wien, 1–401, pl. 1–8. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37136#page/7/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
  • Costa Lima, A.M.da & Guitton, N. (1960) Gênero Dysonia (Orth. Tettig. Phaneropteridae) Parte I. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 32, 399–418. Available at http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=158119&Pesq=sciencia&pagfis=12806
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2011) La tribu Dysoniini parte I: el complejo Dysonia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) y su nueva organización taxonómica. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 20(1), 51–60. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.020.0105
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2012) Systematics of the American katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 2. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 316(4), 285–306. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_316_4/TZ_316_4_Gorochov.pdf
  • Hollier, J.A. & Maehr, M.D. (2012) An annotated catalogue of the type material of Orthoptera (Insecta) described by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl deposited in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(1), 27–75. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185302#page/29/mode/1up
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Braun, H. & García García, A. (2022) The tribe Dysoniini part VI: Phylogeny, biogeography and evolutionary trends of the lichen katydid genera (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Eleventh contribution to the suprageneric organization of Neotropical phaneropterines. Zootaxa, 5166(1), 1–93.

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