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Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929

Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929: dorso-lateral view. (Otu).
Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929: dorso-lateral view. (Otu).
Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929: lateral view. (Otu).
Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929: Fig. 55. male, head and pronotum dorsal and lateral, and antenna. (Otu).
FieldOccurrence 349; 69ccc471-d075-4fbe-a2d1-4aa344d428b6; Tanzania Grassland Mpwapwa Plateau, 2017/03/20: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 349; 69ccc471-d075-4fbe-a2d1-4aa344d428b6; Tanzania Grassland Mpwapwa Plateau, 2017/03/20: male. (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929: 341.

    Holotype; male; b8f5f2d0-4bc0-4ea2-884b-beffc0377f80; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929 in Uvarov, 1954: 544.
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  • Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929 in Otte, 1995: 105.
  • Mesopsilla roseoviridis Ramme, 1929 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 72.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Ramme, W. (1929) Afrikanische Acrididae. Revisionen und Beschreibungen wenig bekannter und neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15, 247–492.
  • 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.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1954) Some less known graminicolous Acridid genera of Central Africa. Annales du Musee du Congo Belge Tervuren (Belgique) Sciences Zoologiques, 1, 544–547.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) In Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology. Cambridge University Press, London. Vol. 1, 481 pp.
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald (1964) An ecological survey of grasshoppers of the subfamily Catantopinae in Eastern Central Africa. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 7(1), 333–378.

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