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species Dichromorpha elegans (Morse, 1896)

• Common name(s):  Elegant Grasshopper
• Images: (8) See all images
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Morse. 1896. Psyche 7:402   >> Clinocephalus elegans    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:61041
  • McNeill. 1897. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 6:233   >> Clinocephalus elegans
  • Morse. 1904. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 18:32   >> Clinocephalus elegans
  • Morse & Hebard. 1915. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 67:99   >> Note: lectotype designation >> Clinocephalus elegans
  • Otte, D. 1979. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 131:77   >> Dichromorpha elegans    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:61040
  • Otte, D. 1981. North American Grasshoppers 1:104, 237 >> Dichromorpha elegans
  • Capinera, C.W. Scherer & Squitier. 2001. Grasshoppers of Florida 47   >> Dichromorpha elegans
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 64, Plate 4 >> Dichromorpha elegans
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Northeastern U.S.A., New York, Long Island, Ravenswood
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  ANSP Philadelphia

• synonym pulcher (Rehn & Hebard, 1905)

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