Skip to main content
Orthoptera Species File
Subspecies

Gastrimargus africanus africanus (Saussure, 1888)

Gastrimargus africanus africanus (Saussure, 1888): Page 235, Figure 6. female habitus. (Otu).
Gastrimargus africanus africanus (Saussure, 1888): Page 235, Figure 6. female habitus. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1568988; b5930275-10e1-4afe-b551-56281ff3990d: female, lateral view (partatype of Gastrimargus africanus var. orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568988; b5930275-10e1-4afe-b551-56281ff3990d: female, dorsal view (partatype of Gastrimargus africanus var. orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568988; b5930275-10e1-4afe-b551-56281ff3990d: female, frontal view (partatype of Gastrimargus africanus var. orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568988; b5930275-10e1-4afe-b551-56281ff3990d: labels (partatype of Gastrimargus africanus var. orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568989; 1cda1e7f-2118-4ff8-aa00-a3c80c9617fb: female, lateral view (paratype of Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568989; 1cda1e7f-2118-4ff8-aa00-a3c80c9617fb: female, frontal view (paratype of Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568989; 1cda1e7f-2118-4ff8-aa00-a3c80c9617fb: labels (paratype of Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568990; 345c873d-04a0-412a-a062-3d061522b4d0: male, lateral view (paratype of Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568990; 345c873d-04a0-412a-a062-3d061522b4d0: male, dorsal view (paratype of Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568990; 345c873d-04a0-412a-a062-3d061522b4d0: male, frontal view (paratype of Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568990; 345c873d-04a0-412a-a062-3d061522b4d0: labels (paratype of Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (47)

  • Oedaleus (Gastrimargus) marmoratus var. africana Saussure, 1888: 39.
  • Gastrimargus africanus var. orientalis Sjöstedt, 1928: 11.

    Holotype; female; e2aec74c-54d5-4e55-8d31-26f2b1006dd6; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Sri Lanka

  • ... Show all ... (43)
  • Gastrimargus africanus africanus (Saussure, 1888) in Felix & Massa, 2016: 51.
  • Gastrimargus africanus africanus (Saussure, 1888) in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 134.

References (42)

  • Baccetti, B. (2004) Notulae Orthopterologicae. 53. Interesting reports from the Ivory Coast. Redia, 86, 23–33.
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • ... Show all ... (38)
  • Bhowmik, H.K. (1986) Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr., 14, 1–192. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/tcm/014/index.pdf
  • Chopard, L. (1957) La faune entomologique de la Réunion. Orthoptèroides. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Série E Entomologie, 8, 31–56.
  • de Saussure, H. (1888) Additamenta ad Prodromum Oedipodiorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 30(1), 1–180. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50100#page/71/mode/1up
  • Descamps, M. & Wintrebert, D. (1966) Pyrgomorphidae et Acrididae de Madagascar. Observations biologiques et diagnoses (Orth. Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 42, 41–263. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/162396
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) The Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Madagascar II. Acrididae, Acridinae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 13, 245–286. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/102952#page/383/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 2. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 310–527.
  • Felix, R.P.W.H. & Massa, B. (2016) The Orthoptera (Insecta: Tettigonioidea, Pyrgomorphoidea, Acridoidea) of Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Bale Mountains National Park and other areas of conservation interest in Ethiopia. Zootaxa, 4189(1), 1–59.
  • Hemp, C. & Hemp, A. (2003) Saltatoria coenoses of high-altitude grasslands on Mt. Kilimanjaro Tanzania (Orthoptera: Saltatoria). Ecotropica, 9, 71–97. Available at http://www.soctropecol.eu/publications/pdf/9%201-2/Hemp,%20Hemp,%202003.pdf
  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.
  • Hemp, C. (2009) Annotated list of Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 18(2), 183–214. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.018.0207
  • Hollier, J.A. (2012) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 2: The Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(2), 215–260. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/183707#page/71/mode/1up
  • Hugel, S. (2014) Grasshoppers of the Mascarene Islands: new species and new records (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Zootaxa, 3900(3), 399–414.
  • Ingrisch, S. & Garai, A. (2001) Orthopteroid Insects from Ganesh Himal, Nepal. Esperiana, Schwanfeld, 8, 755–770.
  • Ingrisch, S. (1990) Grylloptera and Orthoptera s.str. from Nepal and Darjeeling in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Spixiana (Munich), 13, 149–182. Available at http://archive.org/details/spixiana1990zool
  • Ingrisch, S. (1999) Orthopteroid insects of Yemen. Esperiana, Schwanfeld, 7, 349–376.
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University, 390 pp.
  • 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.
  • Koli, Y.J., Gaikwad, S.M., Bharmal, D.L. & Bhawane, G.P. (2013) Karyotypic studies of six species of grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Kolhapur District, Maharashtra, India. Cytologia, 78(3), 255–260. Available at http://https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cytologia/78/3/78_255/_article
  • Li, H. & Liu, J. (1995) The fauna analysis of the Acridoidea in Hainan Island. In Studies on acridoids of Hainan Island. Academy of Sciences, Beijing. pp. 127–183, 295–300.
  • Liu, J. & Li, H. (1995) Classification of acridoids from Hainan Island, China. In Studies on acridoids of Hainan Island. Academy of Sciences, Beijing. pp. 23–126, 293–294.
  • Mahmood, K. & Yousuf, M. (1999) New records of Oedipodinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Azad Jammu and Kashmir with the description of a new species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 8, 271–275.
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
  • Nayeem, R. & Usmani, M.K. (2012) Taxonomy and field observations of grasshopper and locust fauna (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of Jharkhand, India. Munis Entomology and Zoology, 7(1), 391–417. Available at http://www.munisentzool.org/yayin/vol7/issue1/391-417.pdf
  • Nazir, N., Mahmood, K., Ashfaq, M. & Rahim, J. (2014) Morphological and molecular identification of acridid grasshoppers (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Poonch Division, Azad, Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 6(3), 5544–5552. Available at http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/214
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Ritchie, J.M. (1982) A taxonomic revision of the genus Gastrimargus Saussure (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 44(4), 239–329. Available at http://archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis44entolond/page/n277/mode/2up
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (1970) Environmental control of coloration in an Acridid, Gastrimargus africanus Saussure. Anti-Locust Bulletin, 47, 48 pp.
  • Roy, R. (2003) Les Acridiens du Nimba et de sa région. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelle Série. Série A. Zoologie, 190, 311–391. Available at http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/pdf/abrev/Acridi.pdf
  • Sandrasagara, T.R. (1949) A catalogue of the named Ceylonese Tetrigidae, Eumastacidae and Acrididae (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the collection of the Colombo Museum, with records of distribution. Records of the Indian Museum, 47, 135–157. [1950]
  • Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1928) Monographie der Gattung Gastrimargus Sauss. (Orthoptera, Oedipodidae). Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 6(1), 1–51.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1929) Acridiodea aus Zentralafrika gesammelt von R. Grauer während seiner Expedition 1909-1911. Arkiv för Zoologi, 20 A(15), 1–41.
  • Tamkeen, A., Mahmood, K. & Nazir, N. (2015) Oedipodinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 47(4), 1067–1076. Available at http://zsp.com.pk/pdf47/1067-1076%20%2821%29%20PJZ-1803-14%204-6-15%20PJZ%20Paper%20Final.pdf
  • Tandon, S.K. & Shishodia, M.S. (1977) The Acridoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Goa. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 72(1-4), 295–307. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/072/01-04/0295-0307.pdf
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1929) Acrididen (Orthoptera) aus Süd-Indien. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 36, 533–563. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148558#page/583/mode/1up
  • Weidner, H. & Wagner, W. (1968) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg VII. Teil. Insecta IV. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 65, 123–179. Available at http://www.cenak.uni-hamburg.de/sammlungen/zoologie/entomologie/typenkatalog/weidner-1968-caelifera-homoptera.pdf
  • Yin, X.-C. (1984) Insects of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to distribution in Africa.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subspecies1067