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Acrida oxycephala (Pallas, 1771)

Caspian Cone-headed Grasshopper

Nomenclature (48)

  • Gryllus oxycephalus Pallas, 1771: 418, 423, 468.

    Syntype; 476bc11e-c427-478a-9c71-1dd07ae57aba; deposited at: Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); north coast of Caspian Sea

  • Acrida oxycephala (Pallas, 1771) in Gmelin, 1790: 2057.
  • Acrida oxycephala (Pallas, 1771) in Hodjat, Tork, Seiedy & Defaut, 2018: 38.
  • Acrida oxycephala (Pallas, 1771) in Taylan, Sirin, Sevgili & Yesilyurt, 2021: 56.

References (24)

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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1949) Revision of Western Palaearctic species of the genus Acrida Linne (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 25, 15–47. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/151119
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1954) Revision of species of the genus Acrida Linné (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1er d’Entomologie, 38, 107–160.
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  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
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  • Garai, A. (2010) Contribution to the knowledge of the Iranian Orthopteroid insects I. Esperiana, Schwanfeld, 15, 393–417.
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  • Hodjat, S.H., Tork, M., Seiedy, M. & Defaut, B. (2018) A taxonomic review of recorded species of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in Iran. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 23, 35–75. Available at https://ascete.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MOE_23_HODJAT_et_al_Acrididea_from-Iran_2018-01-02.pdf
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  • Savitsky, V.Y. & Lekarev, A.Y. (2007) New data on acoustic communication and sexual behaviour of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from semi-deserts and deserts of Russia and adjacent countries. Russian Entomological Journal, 16(1), 1–38. Available at http://kmkjournals.com/upload/PDF/REJ/16/ent16_1%20001_038%20Savitsky.pdf
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  • Taylan, M.S., Sirin, D., Sevgili, H. & Yesilyurt, F. (2021) A preliminary research and notes on Orthoptera (Insecta) Fauna of Hakkari Province. Zootaxa, 5060(1), 45–70.
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