Species

Anaptygus rectus Ragge, 1954

Nomenclature (7)

Anaptygus rectus Ragge, 1954: 188.
Holotype; female; 7f84c949-533c-4f44-bcc7-c4445d3abf19; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Uttaranchal: Uttarakhand, Tehri Garhwal
Anaptygus rectus Ragge, 1954 in Bhowmik, 1985: 8.

Ragge, D.R. (1954) A new grasshopper from the central Himalayas (Orthoptera; Acrididae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 23, 188–190. Available at https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1954.tb00447.x
Bhowmik, H.K. (1985) Outline of distribution with an index catalogue of Indian grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Part I. Subfamilies: Acridinae, Truxalinae, Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 78, 1–51. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/occpapers/078/index.pdf

Kumar, H. & Chandra, K. (2018) Review of the Indian species of Anaptygus Mistshenko, 1951 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) with description of a new species from the Himalayas. Oriental Insects.
Kumar, H., Chandra, K. & Saini, J. (2020) A new species from India with a key to all known species of the genus Anaptygus Mistshenko, 1951 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zootaxa, 4743(1), 119–124. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4743.1.10

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Alluding to the nearly straight hind margin of the pronotal disc.

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	0	1