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Plectronotus Morse 1900

  • 1. Matice hrvatske 11, 80101 Livno (Bosnia and Herzegovina) niko. kasalo 5 @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
  • 2. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  • 3. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Zoology, Evolution Lab, Rooseveltov trg 6, HR- 10000 Zagreb (Croatia)
  • 4. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Zoology, Evolution Lab, Rooseveltov trg 6, HR- 10000 Zagreb (Croatia) and Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels - Standort Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, D- 20146 Hamburg (Germany)

Description

Genus Plectronotus Morse, 1900

Plectronotus Morse, 1900: 6 (original description of the genus, P.scaber designated as the type species). — Hancock 1902: 161 (reproduction of the original description); 1907a: 69 (reproduction of the original description). — Kirby 1910: 59 (catalogued). — Bruner 1910: 139 (the genus (then only containing P. scaber) is likely to occur in South America but has not yet been found). — Grant 1955a: 58 (new diagnosis of the genus, description of a new species (P. excavatus), key to the species, distribution map covering little more than type localities). — Otte 1997: 4 (catalogued). — Storozhenko 2019: 105 (catalogued). — Silva et al. 2021: 20 (catalogued).

TYPE SPECIES. — Plectronotus scaber Morse, 1900, by original monotypy.

COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION. — Two species, both of which have only been known to occur in Central America: P. excavatus (Panama) and P. scaber (Costa Rica).

Notes

Published as part of Kasalo, Niko, Naskrecki, Piotr, Rebrina, Fran & Skejo, Josip, 2023, Central American Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838 (Orthoptera): a preliminary catalogue, pp. 177-212 in Zoosystema 45 (7) on page 182, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a7, http://zenodo.org/record/7841687

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tetrigidae
Genus
Plectronotus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Morse
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Plectronotus Morse, 1900 sec. Kasalo, Naskrecki, Rebrina & Skejo, 2023

References

  • MORSE A. P. 1900. - Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Subfamily Tettiginae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 2: 3 - 9. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / part / 96689
  • HANCOCK J. L. 1902. - The Tettigidae of North America. Chicago, Pub. by special grant of Mrs. Frank G. Logan, 188 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / bibliography / 5539
  • KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 6195962
  • BRUNER L. 1910. - South American Tetrigidae. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 7: 89 - 143. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 29701
  • GRANT JR. H. J. 1955 a. - Systematics of the Neotropical Batrachideine Genera Plectronotus, Halmatettix and Cranotettix Gen. Nov (Orthoptera; Acridoidea; Tetrigidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 107: 57 - 74.
  • OTTE D. 1997. - Orthoptera Species File 6. Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and Addenda to OSF Vols 1 - 5. Orthopterists' Society & Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 261 p.
  • STOROZHENKO S. Y. 2019. - New taxa of pygmy grasshoppers from Australia with notes on classification of the subfamily Batrachideinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 28 (1): 94 - 107. https: // doi. org / 10.31610 / zsr / 2019.28.1.94
  • SILVA D. S., CADENA- CASTANEDA O. & PEREIRA M. 2021. - Batrachideinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae): an overview of the most diverse tetrigids of the Neotropical region. Zootaxa 4946: 1 - 84. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4946.1.1