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subspecies Ellipes minuta minuta (Scudder, 1862)

• Common name(s):  Minute Pygmy Locust
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• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (31):
  • Scudder, S.H. 1862. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 7(3):425   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1869. Smithson. misc. Coll. 8:82   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Saussure. 1874. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale 6:353   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl & Redtenbacher. 1892. Proc. zool. Soc. London 216   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Proc. zool. Soc. London 1893(3):609   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1902. Psyche 9(310):310   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 29:134   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:11   >> Ellipes minutus
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1907. Entomol. News 18:212   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1907. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 59:65   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1912. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 64(2):272   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Hebard. 1916. Entomol. News 27(1):21   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1917. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 43(1):126   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Hebard. 1925. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 51:303   >> Ellipes minuta
  • Hebard. 1928. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 54:288   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Hebard. 1934. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 20:258   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Hebard. 1935. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 61(3):316   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Urquhart. 1940. Canad. Field Nat. 54:106 >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1967. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 97:41   >> Tridactylus minutus
  • Günther, K.K. 1977. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 24(1-3):59 >> Note: lectotype designation >> Ellipes minuta
  • Günther, K.K. 1980. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 27(1-3):162 >> Ellipes minutus
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada 14:303   >> Ellipes minutus minutus
  • Vickery & G.G.E. Scudder. 1987[1988]. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 118:34   >> Ellipes minutus minutus
  • Maes. 1989. Rev. Nicar. Entomol. 6:52   >> Ellipes minutus minutus
  • Vickery. 1991. Rev. d'Entomologie Quebec 36:26 >> Ellipes minutus
  • Günther, K.K. 1994. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 41(1):13 >> Ellipes minutus minutus
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 6:152 >> Ellipes minutus minutus
  • Bland. 2003. The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets 133 >> Ellipes minutus
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 152, Plate 33 >> Ellipes minutus
  • Sheffield, Hiatt, Valentine, H. Song & Whiting. 2010. Mitochondrial DNA 21(3-4):87-104 >> Ellipes minuta
  • Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 490 >> Ellipes minutus minutus
• See species minuta for additional information.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, North-Central U.S.A., Illinois, Southern Illinois
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  ANSP Philadelphia

• synonym floridanus Günther, 1977
• synonym histrio (Saussure, 1896)

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