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  tribe Conocephalini Burmeister, 1838
genus Orchelimum (Serville, 1838)
subgenus Metarhoptrum Rehn & Hebard, 1915

species Orchelimum (Metarhoptrum) unispina (Saussure & Pictet, 1898)

• Common name(s):  Arizona meadow katydid
• Images: (8) See all images
  • male (syntype)
  • male cerci (syntype)
  • unknown stridulatory apparatus (syntype)
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
• Distribution:
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• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (10):
  • Saussure & Pictet. 1898. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1:398 >> Xiphidium unispina  
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:276 >> Anisoptera  
  • Karny. 1912. In Wytsman [Ed.]. Genera Insectorum 135:9 >> Conocephalus (Neoxiphidion)
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1915. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 41:81 >> Note: Group I >> Conocephalus (Metarhoptrum) unispina  
  • Hebard. 1923. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12(15):335
  • Hebard. 1925. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 51:302 >> Orchelimum unispina  
  • Hebard. 1932. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 58:334  
  • Hebard. 1935. 310 >> Note: Arizona
  • Morris, G.K. & F. Walker. 1976. Canadian Ent. 108:785, 791, 792 >> Orchelimum unispina
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 7:49 >> Orchelimum unispina
• Scrutiny:
  • Maehr, 2007, subgeneric status not recognized by most authors
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Mexico, Mexico Southwest, Jalisco, and Orizaba
  • Kind of type:  syntype
  • Location of type:  MHNG Geneva Museum