Fixation of single type (Lectotype) specimens of species of American Orthoptera: Section one

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The majority of present-day workers in systematic zoology are in accord on matters tending toward fixity of specific names, one of the most important of these being the limitation of the specific name to a single type specimen in cases where the original author had extensive series which he had considered typical, but of which no single type individual was selected. It not infrequently happened in such cases that two or more species were confused by the author, and the limitation of the name to one of the components is necessary for intelligible work. In the distributional and taxonomic work on Orthoptera in which the authors are engaged, the necessity for single type (lectotypic) fixations has become imperative, and after due consideration and examination of the type series and study of the context of the original descriptions, we have made the following fixations.

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Reference Code: A12REH01IDUS

Full Citation: Rehn, J. A. G., and M. Hebard. 1912. Fixation of single type (Lectotype) specimens of species of American Orthoptera: Section One. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 64(1): 60-128.

Location: ANIMAL EF: INSECTS - ORTHOPTERA