Cophotylus purpureus (Uvarov, 1940): female, dorsal view (holotype). (Otu).
Cophotylus purpureus (Uvarov, 1940): female, dorsal view (holotype). (Otu).
Cophotylus purpureus (Uvarov, 1940): female, lateral view (holotype). (Otu).
Cophotylus purpureus (Uvarov, 1940): female, labels (holotype). (Otu).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; df872d03-81e1-4c47-b6e4-cb7066055bb7; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Afghanistan: Dukhtar-a-Kaffin Hill, near Kabul

Nomenclature (6)

  • Sphingonotus purpureus Uvarov, 1940: 55.

    Holotype; female; df872d03-81e1-4c47-b6e4-cb7066055bb7; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Afghanistan: Dukhtar-a-Kaffin Hill, near Kabul

  • Cophotylus purpureus (Uvarov, 1940) in Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951: 610 [258].
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  • Cophotylus purpureus (Uvarov, 1940) in Shumakov, 1963: 152.
  • Cophotylus purpureus (Uvarov, 1940) in Bey-Bienko, 1967: 431.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1967) Some orthopteroid insects of the orders Blattoptera, Orthoptera and Dermaptera from Afghanistan. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, 64, 407–438.
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  • Ramme, W. (1952) The 3rd Danish Expedition to Central Asia. Zoological results 6. Tettigoniidae und Acrididae (Insecta) aus Afghanistan. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Københaven, 114, 187–202.
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyeiznogo Entomologicheskojo Obshchestva, Moskva [= Horae Societatis Entomologicae Unionis Soveticae], 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Two new Acrididae from Afghanistan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 54–59.
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Life zone and ecology data

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