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species Pterotettix asmodaeus (Serville, 1838)

• Common name(s):  Smooth Horned Pygmy Grasshopper
• Images: (6) See all images

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• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (9):
  • Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères 760   >> Note: locality unknown >> Tetrix asmodaeus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:71343
  • Bolívar, I. 1887. Ann. Soc. Entom. Belgique 31:253   >> Nephele asmodeus
  • Giglio-Tos. 1900. Boll. Musei Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 15(377):3   >> Note: Urucum, Asunción >> Nephele asmodeus
  • Bruner, L. 1906. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 30(1461):614   >> Nephele asmodaeus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:71345
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):29   >> Hybotettix? asmodaeus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:465545
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1929[1930]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 81:513 >> Tetticerus asmodaeus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:71346
  • Günther, K. 1939. Abh. Mus. Tierkd. Völkerkd., (A) Zool. (N.F.) 20 (NF Bd.1):187 >> Note: asmodaeus as syn. >> Tetticerus andrei
  • Günther, K. 1974. Bulletin Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris (Zool. 3e ser) 236 (Zool. 160):963   >> Pterotettix asmodaeus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:71342
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 6:59 >> Note: synonym >> Pterotettix andrei
• Scrutiny:
  • Skejo & Cadena-Castañeda, 2015, The records of Giglio-Tos (1900) from Brazil and Paraguay are probably based on confusion with similar genus (e.g. Chiriquia).
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: unknown
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female

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