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Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914)

gladiator short-winged katydid

Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female (allotype). (Otu).
Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female (allotype). (Otu).
Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female. (Otu).
Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 23. male, lateral view. (Otu).
Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 25. male, left cercus. (Otu).
Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 27. subgenital plate (topotype), ventral outline. (Otu).
Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 29. female, head pronotum and tegmina, dorsal outline. (Otu).
Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 31. female, ovipositor, outline. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522685; c80a373b-6fef-4bf2-817f-a0f11fb1a8b0: male (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522685; c80a373b-6fef-4bf2-817f-a0f11fb1a8b0: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522685; c80a373b-6fef-4bf2-817f-a0f11fb1a8b0: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; c80a373b-6fef-4bf2-817f-a0f11fb1a8b0; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Willacy: Lyford

Nomenclature (2)

  • Dichopetala gladiator Rehn & Hebard, 1914: 116.

    Holotype; male; c80a373b-6fef-4bf2-817f-a0f11fb1a8b0; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Willacy: Lyford

  • Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 28.

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
  • 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
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in apposition
Etymology:

Latin, gladiator, swordsman. No explanation is given in the original description. The epithet is probably based on the long distinct shape of the female ovipositor.

Obolopteryx gladiator (Rehn & Hebard, 1914)

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