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Species

Heteracris coerulipes (Sjöstedt, 1910)

Eastern Arc Forest Grasshopper
Heteracris coerulipes (Sjöstedt, 1910): lateral view. (Otu).
Heteracris coerulipes (Sjöstedt, 1910): lateral view. (Otu).
FieldOccurrence 429; 75840837-68ba-4ba3-b78f-33ddf125d9a5; Tanzania Uluguru Mountains monante forest above Morningside, 2016/02/??: male, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 429; 75840837-68ba-4ba3-b78f-33ddf125d9a5; Tanzania Uluguru Mountains monante forest above Morningside, 2016/02/??: male, dorsal view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 431; 4159157b-8468-47aa-955e-4a68de67a3ff; Tanzania Kihansi-Udzungwa, 2016/01/??: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 431; 4159157b-8468-47aa-955e-4a68de67a3ff; Tanzania Kihansi-Udzungwa, 2016/01/??: male, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 460; bdad19aa-fd7c-459e-a251-975bb5e3a9c0; Tanzania Sanje Trail Udzungwa Mountains, 2019/01/29: female, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 462; 5db11776-ec87-4156-ab25-9e85b32e3fee; Tanzania Udzungwa Mountains Mangula, 2015/12/??: female, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 463; c0475a01-b0f8-49f6-ac3b-bdd8686381ee; Tanzania Uluguru Mountains above Morningside, 2016/02/??: female, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 464; bab1b41e-e41e-46d6-b431-f30d267ebea4; Tanzania Amani East Usambara Mountains, 2011/12/10: male, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 466; 93f8c427-7875-43d1-a935-8c9bf9bd2d2d; Tanzania Nilo Forest Reserve E Usambara Mountains, 2015/12/??: male, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 467; 025b95a6-3fd2-4542-a0a6-47f80ad2f89f; Tanzania Sanje Trail Udzungwa Mountains, 2019/01/29: male. (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (12)

  • Euprepocnemis [sic] coerulipes Sjöstedt, 1910: 189.

    Holotype; male; 7d357bb9-210b-4072-b4b7-480aa145c1eb; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); United Republic of Tanzania: Tanga: Usambara, Mombo

  • Thisoicetrus usambaricus Bolívar, 1914: 27.

    Holotype; male; e96ea14d-6fa8-4b98-b6a6-1884bb3fae6e; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Tanzania: Usambara, Bulwa

  • Heteracris coerulipes (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Grunshaw, 1991: 64.
  • Heteracris coerulipes (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 184.

References (8)

  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1914) Estudios entomológicos. Segunda parte. I. El Grupo de los Euprepocnemes. II. Los Truxalinos del antiguo Mundo. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 20, 1–110. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48655
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1921) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. I. the group Euprepocnemini. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1921, 106–144. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51239#page/180/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Acridological notes. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 101, 51–63. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89774#page/65/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Grunshaw, J.P. (1991) A revision of the grasshopper genus Heteracris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae). Natural Resources Institute Bulletin, 38, i-iv, 1–106. Available at http://gala.gre.ac.uk/11108/1/11108_Grunshaw_A%20revision%20of%20the%20grasshopper%20genus%20%28book%29%201991.pdf
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2017) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
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Species1056