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Schistocerca melanocera (Stål, 1861)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Stål, C. (1861) Orthoptera species novas descripsit. In Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi). Utgifna of K. Svenska Vetanskaps Akademien (P.A. Norstedt and Soner), Stockholm. Vol. 2, Issue 1, 299–350 pp. [1860] Available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20004#page/311/mode/1up

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Orthoptera
family
Acrididae
genus
Schistocerca
species
Schistocerca melanocera

Name

Synonyms
Acridium melanocerum Stål, 1861
Acridium tibiale Walker, 1870
Schistocerca borealis Snodgrass, 1902
Schistocerca immaculata Snodgrass, 1902
Schistocerca intermedia Snodgrass, 1902
Schistocerca lineata Snodgrass, 1902
Schistocerca melanocera melanocera
Schistocerca minor Snodgrass, 1902
Schistocerca pallida Snodgrass, 1902
Homonyms
Schistocerca melanocera (Stål, 1861)
Common names
Large Painted Locust in English
Large Painted Locust in English
Large Painted Locust in English
Locusta dipinta delle Galápagos in Italian

Bibliographic References

  1. Butler, A.G. 1877. Account of the zoological collection made during the visit of H.M.S. 'Petrel' to the Galapagos Islands. X. Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, and Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Proc. zool. Soc. London) 1877:88
  2. Buzzetti & Carotti. 2008. Annotated list of the Caelifera of Ecuador (Biodiversity of South America). Memoirs on Biodiversity 1 58
  3. Dirsh. 1969. Acridoidea of the Galapagos Islands (Orthoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 23:31
  4. Dirsh. 1974. Genus Schistocerca (Acridomorpha, Insecta). Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 10:116
  5. Hebard. 1920. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Island, 1905-1906. Dermaptera and Orthoptera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.) 4 2(17):323
  6. Linsley & Usinger. 1966. Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.) 33(7):123
  7. Peck, S.B. 1996. Diversity and distribution of the orthopteroid insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Canadian Journal of Zoology (Canad. J. Zool.) 74(8):1497-1510
  8. Scudder, S.H. 1893. The Orthoptera of the Galapagos Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College (Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard Univ.) 25:11
  9. Stål. 1861[1860]. Orthoptera species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi), Utgifna of K. Svenska Vetanskaps Akademien (P.A. Norstedt and Soner), Stockholm 2(1):326
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