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  subfamily Mogoplistinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873
tribe Mogoplistini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873
genus Cycloptiloides Sjöstedt, 1909

species Cycloptiloides americanus (Saussure, 1874)

• Common name(s):  Saussure’s scaly cricket
• Images: (7) See all images
  • female (Cycloptilum poeyi)
  • female hind tibia and tarsus (Cycloptilum poeyi)
  • male (Cycloptilum poeyi)
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
• Distribution:
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• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (12):
  • Saussure. 1874. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale 6:426 >> Cycloptilum americanum
  • Saussure. 1877. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 25(1):309 >> Cycloptilus  
  • Bolívar, I. 1888. Mem. Soc. Zool. France 1:157 >> Cycloptilum americanum  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1906. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 22:118 >> Cycloptilum americanum  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1909. Second Rept Central Expt. Sta. Republ. Cuba pt. 2:221
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1912. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 64(2):190 >> Note: type species of Glaphyropus >> Glaphyropus americanus  
  • Hebard. 1922. Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus. 7(14):352 >> Cycloptiloides  
  • Hebard. 1932. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 58:365  
  • Zimmerman. 1948. Insects of Hawaii 2:134
  • Strohecker. 1952[1953]. Am. Midl. Nat. 48(3):683
  • Strohecker. 1953. Am. Mus. Novit. 1618:5  
  • Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:238
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Caribbean, Cuba
  • Kind of type:  syntype
  • Sex of type:  male, female
  • Location of type:  MHNG Geneva Museum

• synonym poeyi (Saussure, 1874)