Type specimen

Holotype; male; e60dd29d-780f-416b-80c1-3f0633a7cda4; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Reunion: Saint-Pierre: Saint-Philippe, Basse-Vallée, Vallée-Heureuse, sentier du Puys-Ramond

Nomenclature (4)

  • Hildegardia reuniivaga Hugel, 2007: 427.

    Holotype; male; e60dd29d-780f-416b-80c1-3f0633a7cda4; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Reunion: Saint-Pierre: Saint-Philippe, Basse-Vallée, Vallée-Heureuse, sentier du Puys-Ramond

  • Hildegardia reuniivaga Hugel, 2007 in Hugel, 2014: 402.
  • Hildegardia reuniivaga Hugel, 2007 in Hugel, 2015
  • Hildegardia reuniivaga Hugel, 2007 in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 222.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., Infante, I.C., Silva, D.S.M. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa, 5597(1), 1–265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5597.1.1
  • Hugel, S. (2007) Un nouvel Hildegardia de la Réunion (Orthoptera, Caelifera, Tetrigoidea). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 112(4), 427–443. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_2007_num_112_4_16461
  • Hugel, S. (2014) Grasshoppers of the Mascarene Islands: new species and new records (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Zootaxa, 3900(3), 399–414.
  • Hugel, S. (2015) Endemic grasshoppers from the Mascarene Islands: a critically endangered island fauna. Journal of Insect Conservation, 19, 87–96.
Asserted distribution
Collection object
Type material

Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Mossy trunks and canopy of submountain rainforest and submountain moist Pandanus thicket; also found in lowland and mountain rainforest.

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivereuniivagus, reuniivaga, reuniivagum
Etymology:

Reference to type locality Réunion, from Latin vaga, roving or wandering.

Stats

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species110