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Petamella prosternalis (Karny, 1907)

Petamella prosternalis (Karny, 1907): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Petamella prosternalis (Karny, 1907): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Petamella prosternalis (Karny, 1907): Page 93, Figure 1. Female. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1530828; 8a244487-82a6-427e-a47b-d037729568cc: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530828; 8a244487-82a6-427e-a47b-d037729568cc: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530828; 8a244487-82a6-427e-a47b-d037729568cc: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530828; 8a244487-82a6-427e-a47b-d037729568cc: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530828; 8a244487-82a6-427e-a47b-d037729568cc: male, ventral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530828; 8a244487-82a6-427e-a47b-d037729568cc: male, frontal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530828; 8a244487-82a6-427e-a47b-d037729568cc: male abdomen tip, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (21)

  • Oxyrrhepes prosternalis Karny, 1907: 297.

    Syntype; female; f04f5caf-77f0-4ca2-a516-fca13261559e; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); S. Sudan: Jungoli: Khor Attar. Syntype; male; bec4223d-358c-434c-ad66-6f0fbbf35971; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); S. Sudan: Jungoli: Khor Attar

  • Anoxyrrhepes natalensis Uvarov, 1925: 181.

    Holotype; female; 35e44e30-d070-4ee3-90e1-c6267366fbbd; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal: Natal: Pietermaritzburg

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  • Petamella prosternalis (Karny, 1907) in Mestre & Chiffaud, 2006: 235.
  • Petamella prosternalis (Karny, 1907) in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 74.

Nomenclature references (17)

  • Baccetti, B. (1997) Notulae orthopterologicae. 52. La collezione di ortotteri acridomorfi dell'Africa orientale conservata nel nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale G. Doria di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 91, 227–292. [1996]
  • Davey, J.T., Descamps, M. & Demange, R. (1959) Notes on the Acrididae of the French Sudan with special reference to the Central Niger Delta (I, II). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 21(1-2), 60–112, 565–600.
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  • Descamps, M. (1965) Acridoides du Mali (deuxième contribution). Regions de San et Sikasso (zone soudanaise) (1 partie) et (2 partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 27, 922–962, 1259–1314.
  • 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. (1958) Synonymic and systematic notes on African Acridoidea (Orthotpera). Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 1, 239–244.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1964) Acridoidea. Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba, 44(3), 49–96.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 1. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 10–305.
  • 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.
  • Karny, H.H. (1907) Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr. Franz Werner's nach dem ägyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. IX. Die Orthopterenfauna des ägyptischen Sudans und von Nord-Uganda (Saltatoria, Gressoria, Dermaptera) mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Acridoideengattung Catantops. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (Abt. 1), 116, 267–378. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31621#page/307/mode/1up
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) In Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
  • Mestre, J. (1988) In Les acridiens des formations herbeuses d'Afrique de l'Ouest. CIRAD-PRIFAS. 330 pp.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2017) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 pp.
  • Salfi, M. (1954) Note sulla morfologia dell'armatura genitale e sul valore della unita sistematiche in alcune Pamfagini. Annuario dell'istituto e museo di zoologia della universita di Napoli, 6(4), 1–10.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) On some new short-horned grasshoppers (Acrididae) from South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum, 5(2), 159–187, 24 figs.
  • 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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