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Heteropternis pugnax Bolívar, 1912

CollectionObject 1501421; ef5ac393-d6e3-4db1-b855-cac72b2a5953: male, lateral view (holotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501421; ef5ac393-d6e3-4db1-b855-cac72b2a5953: male, lateral view (holotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501421; ef5ac393-d6e3-4db1-b855-cac72b2a5953: male, dorsal view (holotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501421; ef5ac393-d6e3-4db1-b855-cac72b2a5953: male, ventral view (holotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501421; ef5ac393-d6e3-4db1-b855-cac72b2a5953: labels (holotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568778; 1718f2f6-d91b-40e3-bdc8-f0f08a12f7a1: male, lateral view (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568778; 1718f2f6-d91b-40e3-bdc8-f0f08a12f7a1: male, dorsal view (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568778; 1718f2f6-d91b-40e3-bdc8-f0f08a12f7a1: male, ventral view (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568778; 1718f2f6-d91b-40e3-bdc8-f0f08a12f7a1: labels (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568779; 7622db04-bc08-4e3d-896e-77975b12e8e1: female, lateral view (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568779; 7622db04-bc08-4e3d-896e-77975b12e8e1: female, dorsal view (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568779; 7622db04-bc08-4e3d-896e-77975b12e8e1: female, ventral view (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568779; 7622db04-bc08-4e3d-896e-77975b12e8e1: labels (paratype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568780; e7b35001-a3ca-4e70-a68c-87179271a4e3: female, lateral view (allotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568780; e7b35001-a3ca-4e70-a68c-87179271a4e3: female, dorsal view (allotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568780; e7b35001-a3ca-4e70-a68c-87179271a4e3: female, ventral view (allotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568780; e7b35001-a3ca-4e70-a68c-87179271a4e3: labels (allotype of Heteropternis violaceipennis). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 7146dce0-05e0-4c55-b44d-b7f989003de6; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Zambia: Northern: Mpika

Nomenclature (15)

  • Heteropternis pugnax Bolívar, 1912: 85.

    Holotype; female; 7146dce0-05e0-4c55-b44d-b7f989003de6; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Zambia: Northern: Mpika

  • Heteropternis violaceipennis Ramme, 1929: 277.

    Holotype; male; ef5ac393-d6e3-4db1-b855-cac72b2a5953; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Central African Republic: Ouham: origin of Pama River

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  • Heteropternis pugnax Bolívar, 1912 in Hemp, 2009: 207.
  • Heteropternis pugnax Bolívar, 1912 in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 148.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • 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
  • 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.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1955) Contributions a l'étude de la faune entomologique du Ruanda-Urundi (Mission P. Bsilewsky 1953). LIII. Orthotpera Acrididae. Annales du Musee du Congo Belge Tervuren (Belgique) Sciences Zoologiques, 40, 67–72.
  • 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. (1965) In 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Ramme, W. (1929) Afrikanische Acrididae. Revisionen und Beschreibungen wenig bekannter und neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15, 247–492.
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Heteropternis pugnax Bolívar, 1912

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