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Petamella fallax Giglio-Tos, 1907

Petamella fallax Giglio-Tos, 1907: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Petamella fallax Giglio-Tos, 1907: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Petamella fallax Giglio-Tos, 1907: female, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (15)

  • Petamella fallax Giglio-Tos, 1907: 12.

    Holotype; female; b4f34662-9c6b-4412-86f8-0f60ed573f11; deposited at: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (MRSN); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Bas-Congo: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Madimba

  • Petamella infumata Bolívar, 1911: 302.

    Holotype; female; 5f21afa2-bae6-48db-8b73-88f4ec680a27; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Katanga

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  • Petamella fallax Giglio-Tos, 1907 in Passerin d' Entrèves, 1981: 51.
  • Petamella fallax Giglio-Tos, 1907 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 74.

References (9)

  • Bolívar, I. (1911) Orthoptères nouveaux du Congo Belge. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 55, 298–360. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44648#page/306/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Synonymic and systematic notes on African Acridoidea (Orthotpera). Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 1, 239–244.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1907) Ortotteri Africani. Parte I Acridoidea. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 22(554), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43468#page/41/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) 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.
  • Passerin d' Entrèves, P. (1981) Cataloghi IV - Collezioni Ortotterologiche del Museo di Zoologia dell'Università di Torino. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 1–127 pp.
  • 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. (1943) African genera of the group Oxyrrhepes (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10, 577–589.

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