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Orthoptera Species File
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 (7)

  • 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 Rocha-Sánchez, Zaldívar-Riverón, De Jesús-Bonilla, Barrientos-Lozano & Correa-Sandoval, 2019: 1437, 1444.
  • Obolopteryx Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014 (classified as Dichopetalini Cadena-Castañeda, 2026) in Cadena-Castañeda, 2026: 33, 79.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • 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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  • 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
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

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

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species1501126