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Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884)

Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884): female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884): Female, latero-dorsal view of live specimen, from Mount Bamboutos in Cameroon. 07/2023. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1519413; db359b36-3917-47b6-9f1f-bd5843bf36b1: Female (holotype Heteropternis vittata) BMNH United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]. (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 9e63e17c-80e5-45de-882d-da685a529bd4; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Guinea: Alatife

Nomenclature (34)

  • Dittopternis couloniana Saussure, 1884: 125.

    Holotype; female; 9e63e17c-80e5-45de-882d-da685a529bd4; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Guinea: Alatife

  • Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884) in Rehn, 1901: 372.
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  • Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884) in Timberlake, Smith, Merret, Van Niekirk, Sichamba, Mwandila & Vollesen, 2018: 17.
  • Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884) in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 146.

Nomenclature references (29)

  • Bolívar, I. (1912) Orthoptères nouveaux recueillis par le Dr. Sheffield Neave dans le Katanga. Mémoires de la Société entomologique de Belgique, 19, 73–99. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40997#page/97/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1958) La reserve naturelle integrale du Mont Nimba, fasciule IV. III. Acridiens (Mission M. Lamotte, fevrier-juin 1942). Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, 53, 127–153.
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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) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) La Réserve Naturelle Intégrale du Mont Nimba Vl Orthoptera Acridoidea (Second contribution). Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, 66, 207–220.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Finot, P.A.P. (1908) Déscription d'un genre nouveau et d'une espèce nouvelle d'Orthoptères de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 27–29. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_1908_num_13_2_24260
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • 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) In 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
  • Jago, N.D. (1964) Aspects of the ecology and distribution of grasshoppers in Ghana as a contribution to the zoogeography of West Africa. Journal of the West Africa Science Association, 8(2), 190–204.
  • 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. (1902) Report on a collection of African Locustidae formed by Mr. W. L. Distant, chiefly from the Transvaal. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1902, 57–114, 231–241. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48243#page/95/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) In Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1901) The Acrididae, Tettigonidae and Gryllidae collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Northeast Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 53, 370–382. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38485
  • Roy, R. (1965) Contribution a l'étude de la faune de la basse Casamance (Sénégal) XIV. Orthopteres Acridoidea. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 27, 614–631.
  • 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
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1912) Über einige von E. Lönnberg in Britisch Ostafrika eingesammelte Orthopteren. Arkiv för Zoologi, 7(38), 1–28. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30233#page/893/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1929) Acridiodea aus Zentralafrika gesammelt von R. Grauer während seiner Expedition 1909-1911. Arkiv för Zoologi, 20 A(15), 1–41.
  • Timberlake, J., Smith, P., Merret, L., Van Niekirk, W., Sichamba, M., Mwandila, G. & Vollesen, K. (2018) The Mafinga Mountains, Zambia: Report of a reconnaissance trip, March 2018. BFA Occasional Publications in Biodiversity, 24, 1–41. Available at http://www.biodiversityfoundation.org/documents/BFA%20No.24_Mafingas%20botany.pdf
  • 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]
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1954) Synonymie d'un Oedipodien Africain (Orth. Acrididae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 59, 127. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_1954_num_59_7_18733
  • Zacher, F. (1949) In Sorauer's Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten.
  • de Saussure, H. (1884) Prodromus Oedipodiorum, Insectorum ex Ordine Orthopterorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 28(9), 1–254, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38465
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Adjectivecoulonianus, couloniana, coulonianum
Etymology:

After the Swiss naturalist Louis Coulon (1804-1894).

Heteropternis couloniana (Saussure, 1884)

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