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Despoina
| Description | In Greek mythology, Despoina (Greek: Δέσποινα, Déspoina) was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and sister of Arion. She was the goddess of mysteries of Arcadian cults who was worshipped under the title Despoina ("the mistress"), alongside her mother Demeter, one of the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Her real name could not be revealed to anyone except those initiated to her mysteries. Writing during the second century A.D., Pausanias spoke of Demeter as having two daughters; Kore being born first, before Despoina was born, with Zeus being the father of Kore and Poseidon as the father of Despoina. Pausanias made it clear that Kore is Persephone, although he did not reveal Despoina's proper name. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despoina, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Tettigoniidae : Despoina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Despoina Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1895. Monographie der Pseudophylliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 45:282 pp. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type Specimen | Despoina superba Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Designated By | Kirby, W.F. 1906. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 2:68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type Information Source | Orthoptera Species File | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despoina |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Despoina spinosa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Despoina superba species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Despoena Kirby, 1906 | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Tettigoniidae : Despoena |
References
| Beier. 1954. Revision der Pseudophyllinen, Instituto Español de Entomología, Madrid 175 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1895. Monographie der Pseudophylliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 45:12, 68 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Karny. 1924. Beiträge zur malayischen Orthopterenfauna X. Die Pseudophyllinen des Buitenzorger Museums. Treubia 5(1-3):195 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Kirby, W.F. 1906. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 2:303 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| de Jong, C. 1960. Orthopterological notes IV. Notes on Indomalayan and African Pterophyllinae (Tettigoniidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 45:8, 20 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Beier. 1962. Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae I). Das Tierreich (Tierreich) 73:151 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Beier. 1963. Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Pseudophyllinae. Orthopterorum Catalogus 5:49 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Karny. 1926. On Malaysian katydids. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums (Jour. Fed. Malay States Mus.) 13(2-3):120 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Otte, D. 1997. Tettigonioidea. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 7:215 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Monogr. Pseudophylliden, 12 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
