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species Schistocerca melanocera (Stål, 1861)

• Common name(s):  Large Painted Locust
• Images: (19) See all images
• Distribution:
  •  
   Galápagos Islands
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (10):
  • Stål. 1861[1860]. Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi) 2(1):326   >> Acridium melanocerum    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:50874
  • Butler, A.G. 1877. Proc. zool. Soc. London 1877:88   >> Acridium melanocerum
  • Scudder, S.H. 1893. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard Univ. 25:11   >> Schistocerca melanocera    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:50873
  • Hebard. 1920. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4 2(17):323   >> Schistocerca melanocera
  • Linsley & Usinger. 1966. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 33(7):123 >> Schistocerca melanocera melanocera
  • Dirsh. 1969. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 23:31   >> Schistocerca melanocera
  • Parkin, P., D.T. Parkin, Ewing & Ford. 1972. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 48:102   >> Schistocerca melanocera
  • Dirsh. 1974. Ser. Entomol. 10:116 >> Schistocerca melanocera
  • Peck, S.B. 1996. Canad. J. Zool. 74(8):1497-1510 >> Schistocerca melanocera
  • Buzzetti & Carotti. 2008. Memoirs on Biodiversity 1 58 >> Schistocerca melanocera
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Western South America, Galápagos, Floreana
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

• synonym borealis Snodgrass, 1902
• synonym immaculata Snodgrass, 1902
• synonym intermedia Snodgrass, 1902
• synonym lineata Snodgrass, 1902
• synonym minor Snodgrass, 1902
• synonym pallida Snodgrass, 1902
• synonym tibiale (Walker, 1870)

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