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Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914)

chestnut short-winged katydid

Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female, lateral view (allotype). (Otu).
Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female, lateral view (allotype). (Otu).
Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 15. male, lateral view. (Otu).
Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 16. male, left cercus, outline. (Otu).
Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 19. male, subgenital plate, outline. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522680; 91531136-f6c3-4e7a-a90e-4d2cc64d85c1: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522680; 91531136-f6c3-4e7a-a90e-4d2cc64d85c1: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522680; 91531136-f6c3-4e7a-a90e-4d2cc64d85c1: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Dichopetala castanea Rehn & Hebard, 1914: 95.

    Holotype; male; 91531136-f6c3-4e7a-a90e-4d2cc64d85c1; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Laguna del Gato, three mi W of Sam Fordyce

  • Dichopetala castanea Rehn & Hebard, 1914 in Márquez Mayaudón, 1969: 61.
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  • Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 29.
  • Obolopteryx castanea (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Zaldívar-Riverón & Correa-Sandoval, 2016

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Buzzetti, F.M., Méndez-Gómez, B.R. & Horta-Vega, J.V. (2013) In Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada. Ciudad de México. 388 pp.
  • 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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  • Buzzetti, F.M. & Barrientos-Lozano, L. (2011) Bioacoustics of some Mexican Orthoptera (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera). Bioacoustics, 20(2), 193–213.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) In Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 249 pp.
  • 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
  • Márquez Mayaudón, C. (1969) Estudio comparativo de los genitales externos y de los cromosomas de algunos grupos de la subfamilia Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) de Mexico. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Serie Zoologia, 40(1), 55–102.
  • Otte, D. (1979) The primary types of Orthoptera (Saltatoria, Blattodea, Phasmatodea, and Mantodea) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 130, 26–87. [1978]
  • 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
  • Vahed, K., Gilbert, J.D.J., Weissman, D.B. & Barrientos-Lozano, L. (2014) Functional equivalence of grasping cerci and nuptial food gifts in promoting ejaculate transfer in katydids. Evolution, 68(7), 2052–2065. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12421/abstract

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin, castaneus, chestnut. Although no explanation was given in the original description, the epithet probably references the usually prominent brown coloring of the dorsum, and “bright chestnut” is described of some portion of the male tegmina.

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