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Dichopetala Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

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Nomenclature (12)

  • Dichopetala Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 76.

    type species by subsequent designation Dichopetala mexicana Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 in Kirby, 1906

  • Dichopetala Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891: 4.
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  • Dichopetala Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 in Rocha-Sánchez, Zaldívar-Riverón, De Jesús-Bonilla, Barrientos-Lozano & Correa-Sandoval, 2019: 1437, 1444.
  • Dichopetala Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (classified as Dichopetalini Cadena-Castañeda, 2026) in Cadena-Castañeda, 2026: 31, 32, 79.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • 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
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1891) Additamenta zur Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 1–196. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/141/mode/1up
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  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2026) Studies on Phaneropterinae: The short-winged bush katydids, Odonturini sensu lato, Barbististini and their allies (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Twelfth contribution to the suprageneric organization of phaneropterines. Zootaxa, 5762(1), 1–82. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5762.1.1
  • 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
  • de Saussure, H. & Pictet, A. (1898) Insecta Orthoptera (Orthoptera Genuina). Fam. Locustidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1, 345–456. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm
  • Fontana, P. & Buzzetti, F.M. (2004) Biogeographical considerations on some Mediterranean Phaneropteridae and description of a new genus and a new species from South Africa (Orthoptera). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, 82(2), 441–468.
  • Hebard, M. (1932) New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 58(3), 201–371. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4268_003#page/2/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
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1914) A study of the species of the genus Dichopetala (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 66, 64–160. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1856461/#page/72/mode/1up
  • Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Zaldívar-Riverón, A., De Jesús-Bonilla, V.S., Barrientos-Lozano, L. & Correa-Sandoval, A. (2019) Molecular systematics of the Dichopetala genus group (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae). Revista de Biología Tropical, 67(6), 1431–1448. Available at http://https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/36085
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. The American Midland Naturalist, 40, 521–663. [1949]

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek, διχῶς, dichos, split, doubly, in two; Greek, πέταλον, petalon, petal, leaf. "διχῶς = dupliciter πέταλον = folium, lamina" (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1878). This generic name probably references the split female subgenital used to characterize the genus.

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