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Sphenarium purpurascens Charpentier, 1845

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Charpentier, T. (1845) In Orthoptera descripta et depicta [1841-1845]. L. Woss, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. 120 pp. (non numerate). Available from http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuc.2859184

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Orthoptera
family
Pyrgomorphidae
genus
Sphenarium
species
Sphenarium purpurascens

Name

Synonyms
Sphenarium purpurascens purpurascens
Sphenarium purpurasceus
Homonyms
Sphenarium purpurascens Charpentier, 1845
Common names
Chapulín de la milpa in Spanish
Cornfield Grasshopper in English
Gafanhoto-do-milho in Portuguese

Bibliographic References

  1. Bolívar, I. 1884. Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat.) 13:446
  2. Bruner, L. 1906. Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 2:206
  3. COPR (Centre for Overseas Pest Research). 1982. The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual 74
  4. Castellanos-Vargas & Cano-Santana. 2009. Historia natural y ecología de Sphenarium purpurascens (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Biodiversidad del Ecosistema del Pedregal de San Ángel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F. 337-346
  5. Charpentier. 1845. Orthoptera descripta et depicta [1841-1845], L. Woss, Lipsiae [Leipzig] Tab. 31
  6. Cueva del Castillo & Cano-Santana. 2001. Variación de la coloración corporal de Sphenarium purpurascens (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphydae) en función del sexo y su relación con la formación de parejas en un ambiente heterogéneo . Folia Entomológica Mexicana (Folia Ent. Mex.) 40(3):297-309
  7. Cueva del Castillo, Núñez-Farfán & Cano-Santana. 1999. The role of body size in mating success of Sphenarium purpurascens in Central Mexico. Ecological Entomology (Ecol. Entomol.) 24(2):146-155
  8. Cueva del Castillo. 2003. Body size and multiple copulations in a neotropical grasshopper with an extraordinary mate-guarding duration. Journal of Insect Behavior (Jour. Ins. Behav.) 16(4):503-522
  9. Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez. 2008. Chapulines, Langostas, Grillos y Esperanzas de México. Guía fotográfica - Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets & Katydids of Mexico. Photographic guide, World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy 130-131
  10. Fontana, Buzzetti, Mariño-Pérez, Castellanos-Vargas, Monge-Rodríguez & Cano-Santana. 2017. Ortópteros de Oaxaca. Orthopterans of Oaxaca, WBA Handbooks 8, Verona 102
  11. Garza-López & Cueva del Castillo. 2006. Elección masculina de pareja en Sphenarium purpurascens (Charpentier) (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). ¿pueden los machos evaluar la experiencia reproductiva de las hembras?. Folia Entomológica Mexicana (Folia Ent. Mex.) 45(2):165-170
  12. Hebard. 1932. New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 58(3):266
  13. Kevan, D.K.M. 1978[1977]. The American Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina (Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent.) 36(1-4):9
  14. Kevan, D.K.M. [Ed.]. 1977. In Beier [Ed.]. Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus 16:422
  15. Kevan, D.K.M., Akbar & Y.C. Chang. 1974[1972]. The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth. Acridoidea). Part V. Tribes Schulthessiini, Taphronotini, Dictyophorini, Tagastini, Pseudomorphacridini, Atractomorphini, Spenariini and Omurini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología (Eos) 48:268
  16. Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 3(2):304
  17. Márquez Mayaudón, C. 1962. Estudio de las especies del género Sphenarium basado en sus genitalia (Acrididae, Orthoptera) con la descripción de una especie nueva. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Serie Zoología. (An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Auton. Mex. Ser. Zool.) 33:250
  18. Pedraza-Lara, Barrientos Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez & Zaldívar-Riverón. 2015. Montane and coastal species diversification in the economically important Mexican grasshopper genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 84:220-231
  19. Rehn, J.A.G. 1901[1900]. Remarks on some Mexican Orthoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 27:227
  20. Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Mexico and Central America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 29(1):11
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