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genus

Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014

Type

Dichopetala emarginata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 type species by original designation of Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014

Nomenclature (6)

  • Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 26.

    type species by original designation Dichopetala emarginata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

  • Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014 in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez & Correa-Sandoval, 2015: 485.
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  • Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014 in Kensinger, Schwemm & Luttbeg, 2017
  • Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014 in Rocha-Sánchez, Zaldívar-Riverón, De Jesús-Bonilla, Barrientos-Lozano & Correa-Sandoval, 2019: 1437, 1444.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y. & Correa-Sandoval, A. (2015) A new species of the genus Obolopteryx Cohn et al. 2014 and a conspecific gynandromorph (Ensifera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Zootaxa, 4028(4), 485–510.
  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Zaldívar-Riverón, A. & Correa-Sandoval, A. (2016) Additional new species of the genus Obolopteryx Cohn et al. 2014 (Ensifera: Tettigoniidae) from Northeastern Mexico. Zootaxa, 4168(3), 401–452.
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  • 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
  • Kensinger, B.J., Schwemm, M.R. & Luttbeg, B. (2017) Molecular phylogeny for the Obolopteryx katydids of the southwestern United States (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 19(3), 7–14. Available at http://www.entomol.org/journal/index.php?journal=JERS&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=1108&path%5B%5D=527
  • Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Barrientos-Lozano, L., Zaldívar-Riverón, A. & Almaguer-Sierra, P. (2016) Importancia de la genitalia en la delimitación de especies de la subfamilia Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Entomología Mexicana, 3, 943–949. Available at http://www.socmexent.org/entomologia/revista/2016/SM/Em%20943-949.pdf
  • 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
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Gender, form, and etymology
Feminine
Etymology:

Greek, ὀβολός, obolos, small coin; Greek, πτέρυξ, pteryx, wing. The name references the small, round shape of the female tegmina.

Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014

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