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Issue: Vol. 4486 No. 2: 27 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.7
Page range: 180–188
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 3

Comments on the neglected nymphs of mud crickets in the genus Mirhipipteryx (Caelifera: Tridactyloidea: Ripipterygidae)

Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820–6960, USA Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801–3707, USA
Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820–6960, USA
Office of General Studies, Colorado College, 14 East Cache la Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903, USA
Orthoptera Belize Central America immature stages Mirhipipteryx pulicaria

Abstract

Mud crickets (family Ripipterygidae) comprise a small family of orthopterans distributed throughout much of the Neotropics, but knowledge of this groups' biology, ecology and distribution remains poor in comparison to most orthopteran taxa. Here we review the state of knowledge of nymphs in the genus Mirhipipteryx Günther 1969 and report the genus from Belize for the second time in 86 years. Because information about nymphs in this family is so scarce and nymphs are often neglected in species descriptions, we include comments on the coloration of nymphs for Mirhipipteryx pulicaria (Saussure 1896). Caution is suggested for the use of adult characters for the identification of immatures stages in the group. Nymphs of Mirhipipteryx pulicaria pulicaria are similar in coloration patterns to the adults, but lighter. Mirhipipteryx lobata Günther 1977 is designated a nomen nudum.

 

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