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Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914)

Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): male. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): male. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): female, lateral view (allotype). (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 50. male, lateral outline. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 51. male, head pronotum and tegmina, dorsal outline. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 53. male, left cercus, outline. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 55. male, subgenital plate, ventral outline. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 57. female, subgenital plate, ventral outline. (Otu).
Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914): Fig. 59. female, ovipositor, outline. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1522692; 9e11dda6-17c5-40d0-b1fe-ca50830ddaf0: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522692; 9e11dda6-17c5-40d0-b1fe-ca50830ddaf0: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522692; 9e11dda6-17c5-40d0-b1fe-ca50830ddaf0: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1537638; 7e7bfe32-fa13-48b5-8d2f-eb6eeaac1538: female, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1537638; 7e7bfe32-fa13-48b5-8d2f-eb6eeaac1538: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1537638; 7e7bfe32-fa13-48b5-8d2f-eb6eeaac1538: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1537638; 7e7bfe32-fa13-48b5-8d2f-eb6eeaac1538: female, ventral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1537638; 7e7bfe32-fa13-48b5-8d2f-eb6eeaac1538: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Dichopetala tridactyla Rehn & Hebard, 1914: 149.

    Holotype; male; 9e11dda6-17c5-40d0-b1fe-ca50830ddaf0; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Mexico: Zacatecas: Camacho

  • Dichopetala tridactyla Rehn & Hebard, 1914 in Márquez Mayaudón, 1969: 63.
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  • Dichopetala tridactyla Rehn & Hebard, 1914 in Hollier & Heads, 2014: 73.
  • Rhabdocerca tridactyla (Rehn & Hebard, 1914) in Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 34.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Buzzetti, F.M., Méndez-Gómez, B.R. & Horta-Vega, J.V. (2013) Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada. Ciudad de México, 388 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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  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2008) 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
  • Hollier, J.A. & Heads, S.W. (2014) The type specimens of Orthoptera described by American entomologists in the collection of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 121(1), 63–76. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/221120#page/65/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • Petersen, G. & Gaedike, H. (1970) Katalog der in den Sammlungen des Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes aufbewahrten Typen II. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 20(1-2), 145–172. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/923
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek, τρῐ-, tri-, three; Greek, δάκτυλος, dactylos, finger. No explanation is given in the original description. The epithet clearly references the three appendages of the male cercus: the dorsal rod, lateral finger, and apex of the main shaft.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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