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Oedaleus plenus plenus (Walker, 1870)

Oedaleus plenus plenus (Walker, 1870): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Oedaleus plenus plenus (Walker, 1870): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Oedaleus plenus plenus (Walker, 1870): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Oedaleus plenus plenus (Walker, 1870): dorsal view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (20)

  • Epacromia plena Walker, 1870: 769.

    Syntype; male; c69561b3-df4b-44a3-b886-76229ec8e190; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa. Syntype; female; 7afafbac-dc11-492e-9f92-9e236566a233; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa

  • Oedaleus nigrofasciatus var. caffer Saussure, 1888: 41.
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  • Oedaleus nigrofasciatus var. caffer Saussure, 1888 (subjective synonym of Epacromia plena Walker, 1870) in Hollier, 2012: 243.
  • Oedaleus plenus (Walker, 1870) in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 173.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • 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
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.
  • 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
  • Johnsen, P. (1980) New records of shorthorned grasshoppers from Botswana, with a description of Rhodesiana cuneicerca n. sp. (Insecta: Acridomorpha). Botswana Notes & Record, 12(1), 23–33. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/botnotes/12/1/AJA052550590_870
  • 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.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Miller, N.C.E. (1929) Acrididae collected in Tanganyika Territory. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 77, 61–97, pls. 5–11.
  • Ritchie, J.M. (1981) A taxonomic revision of the genus Oedaleus Fieber (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 42, 83–183. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis42entolond
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum 4. Identification of the types of Acrididae preserved in the Museum. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 72(3-4), 265–301. [1924]
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich

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