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Species

Platypygius crassus (Karny, 1907)

Thick Grasshopper

Nomenclature (13)

  • Aiolopus tergestinus var. crassus Karny, 1907: 286.

    Holotype; male; d0ed779e-d998-4775-a4f9-508a76d3d64f; deposited at: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUM);

  • Aeolopus [sic] burri Uvarov, 1921: 155.

    Holotype; male; 77741244-6329-471e-9264-1ddefa1924e5; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Macedonia: Lembet

  • Platypygius crassus (Karny, 1907) in Benediktov, 2018: 23.
  • Platypygius crassus (Karny, 1907) in Willemse, Kleukers & Odé, 2018: 313.

References (11)

  • Karny, H.H. (1907) Beiträge zur einheimischen Orthopterenfauna. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 57, 275–287. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47780#page/581/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1921) Descriptions of four new Orthoptera from Macedonia. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 33, 155–159. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95109#page/189/mode/1up
  • Burr, M., Campbell, B.P. & Uvarov, B.P. (1923) A contribution to our knowledge of the Orthoptera of Macedonia. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 71(1-2), 110–169.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1926) New or less known Acrididae from Central Asia. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 2, 321–359. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/137712
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Acrididae of Central Asia [in Russian]. Expt. Plant Protect. Sta. Uzbekistan, 1927, 214 pp.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1942) New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 67(4), 303–361. [1941] Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4277_003#page/63/mode/1up
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.
  • Benediktov, A.A. (2018) Note on acoustic signals of grasshopper males of the genera Epacromius and Platypygius (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) from Russia and adjacent territories. Far Eastern Entomologist, 370, 21–24. Available at http://www.biosoil.ru/FEE/Publication/1788
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to robust appearance.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1034