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Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914)

thumb-bearing short-winged katydid

Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female, lateral view (allotype). (Otu).
Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female, lateral view (allotype). (Otu).
Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female. (Otu).
Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female. (Otu).
Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): male. (Otu).
Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 12. male, head pronotum and tegmina, dorsal outline. (Otu).
Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 13. female, head pronotum and tegmina, dorsal outline. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522690; a8122724-ea6e-4ccc-be63-d455344042ae: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522690; a8122724-ea6e-4ccc-be63-d455344042ae: male tegmina (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522690; a8122724-ea6e-4ccc-be63-d455344042ae: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; a8122724-ea6e-4ccc-be63-d455344042ae; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Cameron: Brownsville

Nomenclature (6)

  • Dichopetala pollicifera Rehn & Hebard, 1914

    Holotype; male; a8122724-ea6e-4ccc-be63-d455344042ae; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Texas: Cameron: Brownsville

  • Dichopetala pollicifera Rehn & Hebard, 1914 in Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2008: 82.
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  • Dichopetala pollicifera Rehn & Hebard, 1914 in Vahed, Gilbert, Weissman & Barrientos-Lozano, 2014: 33.
  • Planipollex pollicifer (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 33.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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.
  • Buzzetti, F.M. & Barrientos-Lozano, L. (2011) Bioacoustics of some Mexican Orthoptera (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera). Bioacoustics, 20(2), 193–213.
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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
  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2008) In Chapulines, Langostas, Grillos y Esperanzas de México. Guía fotográfica - Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets & Katydids of Mexico. Photographic guide. World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy. 1–272 pp. Available at http://biodiversityassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Grasshoppers-Locusts-Crickets-Katydids-Of-Mexico.pdf
  • 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
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivepollicifer, pollicifera, polliciferum
Etymology:

Latin, pollex, pollicis, thumb; Latin, -fer, suffix meaning bearing. No explanation is given in the original description. The epithet probably refers to the thumb-like appendage of the cercus.

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