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Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914)

mountain-dwelling short-winged katydid

Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female (allotype). (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female (allotype). (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female. (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): male. (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 33. male, lateral view. (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 34. male, cercus, outline. (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 37. male, subgenital plate, ventral outline. (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 39. female, head pronotum and tegmina, dorsal view. (Otu).
Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 40. female, ovipositor, outline. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522688; ebdd0b70-e385-4dd2-a426-890c71293f32: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522688; ebdd0b70-e385-4dd2-a426-890c71293f32: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522688; ebdd0b70-e385-4dd2-a426-890c71293f32: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; ebdd0b70-e385-4dd2-a426-890c71293f32; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Brewster: Chisos Mountains, canyon behind Pulliam Bluffs

Nomenclature (5)

  • Dichopetala oreoeca Rehn & Hebard, 1914: 131.

    Holotype; male; ebdd0b70-e385-4dd2-a426-890c71293f32; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Brewster: Chisos Mountains, canyon behind Pulliam Bluffs

  • Dichopetala oreoeca Rehn & Hebard, 1914 in Tinkham, 1948: 622.
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  • Dichopetala oreoeca Rehn & Hebard, 1914 in Rivera García, 2006: 143.
  • Obolopteryx oreoeca (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 31.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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
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  • 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
  • Rivera García, E. (2006) An annotated checklist of some orthopteroid insects of Mapimi Biosphere Reserve (Chihuahuan desert), Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, nueva serie, 22(3), 131–149. Available at http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57522311
  • 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]
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek, ὀρείοικος, dwelling in the mountains. “Ὀρείοικος, mountain-dwelling”. The epithet references the high elevations where this species is typically found. This species commonly has been referred to as the mountain-dwelling short-winged katydid.

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