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Cubacophus velutinus Bonfils 1981

  • 1. Calle 200, No. 3759 / 37 y 45, C. P 13500, La Lisa, La Habana, Cuba.
  • 2. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and Department of Entomology, United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA.

Description

Cubacophus velutinus (Bonfils, 1981)

Cophus velutinus Bonfils, 1981: 108, figs. 19–27; Otte and Perez-Gelabert, 2009: 679, fig. 635. Cubacophus velutinus: Ruíz-Baliú and Otte, 1997a [1996]: 242.

Holotype male, Cueva del Jagüey, Oriente province [at present Holguín province], Cuba. [MNHNP or ISBER].

Distribution. Eastern Cuba.

Notes. Bonfils (1981) did not specify in which of the two museums he would deposit his type specimens. The type specimen for this species is not currently found in the MNHNP database of Orthoptera types. Details on this type locality are found in Orghidan et al. (1977) and given as follows: “Provincia de Oriente, Municipio de Mayarí, Barrio de Seboruquito, à 50 m en amont de la grotte précédente. Altitude: env. 20 m. ”

Notes

Published as part of Yong, Sheyla & Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E., 2014, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Katydids (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Cuba: an annotated checklist, pp. 401-438 in Zootaxa 3827 (4) on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/228581

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHNP, ISBER
Family
Gryllidae
Genus
Cubacophus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bonfils
Species
velutinus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cubacophus velutinus Bonfils, 1981 sec. Yong & Perez-Gelabert, 2014

References

  • Bonfils, J. (1981) Orthopteres recoltes par les expeditions biospeologiques cubano-roumaines a Cuba (1969 a 1973). In: Orghidan, T., Nunez Jimenez, A., Decou,. V., Negrea, S. & Bayes, N. V. (Eds.), Resultats des expeditions biospeologiques cubano-roumaines a Cuba. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, Bucarest, 3, 103 - 112.
  • Otte, D. & Perez-Gelabert, D. E. (2009) Caribbean Crickets. Orthopterists´Society, place of publication not stated, 792 pp.
  • Ruiz-Baliu, A. E. & Otte, D. [1997 a] (1996) A revision of genus Cophus Saussure, 1874 from Cuba and new genus and new species descriptions (Gryllidae: Phalangopsinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 122, 237 - 247.
  • Orghidan, T. N., Negrea, S. & Vina Bayes, N. (1977) Deuxieme expedition biospeologique cubano-roumaine a Cuba (1973). Presentation sommaire des stations terrestres et aquatiques prospectees. In: Orghidan, T., Nunez Jimenez, A., Decou,. V., Negrea, S. & Bayes, N. V. (Eds.), Resultats des expeditions biospeologiques cubano- roumaines a Cuba. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, Bucarest, 2, pp. 15 - 40.