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Conocephalus laetus

Authors/Creators

  • 1. INCI, UPR 3212 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 21 rue René Descartes, F- 67084 Strasbourg cedex (France) hugel @ neurochem. u-strasbg. fr

Description

Conocephalus laetus (Redtenbacher, 1891)

Xiphidium laetum Redtenbacher, 1891: 514.

Conocephalus laetus – Karny, 1912: 11. — Pitkin 1980: 345.

Conocephalus dubius Willemse, 1942: 95.

Conocephalus raggei Harz, 1970: 194.

TYPE MATERIAL. — North Australia. ♀ holotype (BMNH). Not examined.

Conocephalus dubius: North Australia. ♂ holotype (NHMB); 1 ♀ allotype (NHMB). Not examined.

Conocephalus raggei: Uganda. ♂ holotype (BMNH); 4 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀ paratypes (BMNH). Not examined.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Australasia, Australia, North Australia.

DISTRIBUTION. — Widely distributed (Africa, Australia, New Guinea, etc.).

REMARKS

This species has been recorded in Santo by Willemse (1925) in Hog Harbour (clearings) and Chuuri. Neither Pitkin who revised the genus in this world area, nor I have examined these specimens.

Notes

Published as part of Hugel, Sylvain, 2009, Gryllacrididae and Tettigoniidae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Ensifera) from Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, pp. 525-576 in Zoosystema 31 (3) on page 564, DOI: 10.5252/z2009n3a10, http://zenodo.org/record/5397541

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , NHMB
Scientific name authorship
Redtenbacher
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dryophthoridae
Genus
Conocephalus
Species
laetus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
allotype , holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Conocephalus laetus (Redtenbacher, 1891) sec. Hugel, 2009

References

  • REDTENBACHER J. 1891. - Monographie der Conocephaliden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft Wien 41: 315 - 562.
  • KARNY H. H. 1912. - Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae Subfam. Copiphorinae, in WYTSMAN P. (eds), Genera Insectorum 139. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles: 1 - 50.
  • PITKIN L. M. 1980. - A revision of the Pacific species of Conocephalus Thunberg (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series 41: 315 - 355.
  • WILLEMSE C. 1925. - Contribution a la faune des Orthopteres des Nouvelles-Hebrides. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London: 513 - 529.