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Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970

Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male (holotype). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male (holotype). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male left mirror area (holotype). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male cerci (not a type). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male head and pronotum, lateral view (not a type). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male frons (not a type). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male habitus, lateral view (Costa Rica, La Selva). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: male pronotum lateral (Costa Rica, La Selva). (Otu).
Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970: nymph habitus, frontal view (Costa Rica, La Selva). (Otu).

Nomenclature (3)

  • Steirodon (Frontinum [sic]) sandrae Emsley, 1970: 179.

    Holotype; male; 593c6711-9766-496c-8c23-b64356af9fff; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Panama: Panama: Cerro Campana

  • Steirodon sandrae Emsley, 1970 in Nickle, 1992: 145.
  • Steirodon (Frontinus) sandrae Emsley, 1970 in Gorochov, 2025: 27.

References (3)

  • Emsley, M.G. (1970) A revision of the steirodontine katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneroperinae: Steirodontini). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 122, 125–248. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=uvGq6HczEa0C&pg
  • Nickle, D.A. (1992) Katydids of Panama (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). In Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York & Tokyo. pp. 142–184, 649, 658.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2025) Systematics of the American katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 12: the subtribes Steirodontina and Anaulacomerina. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 329(1), 13–47. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.1.13

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Probably named after Sandra Duckworth, wife of entomologist W. Donald Duckworth. S.S. and W.D. Duckworth collected the specimens.

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