species

Pterodichopetala cultricerca (Strohecker, 1945)

Pterodichopetala cultricerca (Strohecker, 1945): Fig. 1 (after type). male head, pronotum (5 mm) and tegmina (8.4 mm), dorsal view. (Otu).

Pterodichopetala cultricerca (Strohecker, 1945): Fig. 2 (after type). male cercus, lateral view. (Otu).

Pterodichopetala cultricerca (Strohecker, 1945): Fig. 3 (after type). male cercus, dorso-caudal view. (Otu).

CollectionObject 1476224; dda1acb9-5328-4df1-8312-669d0c9e1184: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (2)

Dichopetala cultricerca Strohecker, 1945: 212.
Holotype; male; dda1acb9-5328-4df1-8312-669d0c9e1184; deposited at: Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology (FSCA); Mexico: Nuevo León: Villa Santiago [probably S or W of Cola del Caballo Falls]
Pterodichopetala cultricerca (Strohecker, 1945) in Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 54.

Nomenclature references (2)

Cohn, T.J., Swanson, D.R. & Fontana, P. (2014) Dichopetala and new related North American genera: a study in genitalic similarity in sympatry and genitalic differences in allopatry (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Odonturini). In Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan. Vol. 203, 1–180 pp. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/122723
Strohecker, H.F. (1945) Notes on and descriptions of Mexican Orthoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 38(2), 207–215.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin, culter, cultri, plough-share; Greek, κέρκος, cercos, tail (of an animal). No explanation was given in the original description. The epithet references the complex structure of the male cercus, probably more specifically the long, curved, and acute basal arm.

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