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Obolopteryx poecila (Hebard, 1932)

Obolopteryx poecila (Hebard, 1932): male, dorso-lateral view. (Otu).
Obolopteryx poecila (Hebard, 1932): male, dorso-lateral view. (Otu).
Obolopteryx poecila (Hebard, 1932): Plate 19, Fig.1 (after type). male subgenital plate, ventral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522689; d0af767a-cfce-480f-a3ef-73facfe042a3: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (5)

  • Dichopetala poecila Hebard, 1932: 299.

    Holotype; male; d0af767a-cfce-480f-a3ef-73facfe042a3; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Mexico: Tamaulipas: El Mante

  • Dichopetala poecila Hebard, 1932 in Strohecker, 1945: 210.
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  • Obolopteryx poecila (Hebard, 1932) in Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 31.
  • Obolopteryx poecila (Hebard, 1932) in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Zaldívar-Riverón & Correa-Sandoval, 2016

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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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  • 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
  • Hebard, M. (1932) New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 58(3), 201–371. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4268_003#page/2/mode/1up
  • Strohecker, H.F. (1945) Notes on and descriptions of Mexican Orthoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 38(2), 207–215.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek, ποικίλος, poecilos, varicolored, pied, mottled, spotted. The epithet probably references the vibrant coloration of live specimens.

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