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Species

Omocestus (Dirshius) nanus Uvarov, 1934

CollectionObject 1502032; 7a530bed-821d-4de2-ba5b-583ad9a4793f: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502032; 7a530bed-821d-4de2-ba5b-583ad9a4793f: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502032; 7a530bed-821d-4de2-ba5b-583ad9a4793f: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502032; 7a530bed-821d-4de2-ba5b-583ad9a4793f: male, ventral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502032; 7a530bed-821d-4de2-ba5b-583ad9a4793f: male, frontal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502032; 7a530bed-821d-4de2-ba5b-583ad9a4793f: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Omocestus nanus Uvarov, 1934: 81.

    Holotype; male; 0369774b-dfce-4e3e-9132-43c9104bb5fe; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Turkey: Anatolian Plateau

  • Omocestus nanus Uvarov, 1934 in Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951: 479 [108].
  • Omocestus (Omocestus) nanus Uvarov, 1934 in Machácková & Fikácek, 2014: 418.
  • Omocestus (Dirshius) nanus Uvarov, 1934 in Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023: 25.

References (9)

  • Uvarov, B.P. (1934) Studies in the Orthoptera of Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 10, 21–119. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/143939
  • 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
  • Karabag, T. (1956) Some new and less known Acrididae from Turkey (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 32, 125–134. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/154956
  • Ünal, M. (2006) Kirikkale Orthopterlerinin fauna ekoloji ve taksonomisi Üzerine Arastirmalar. Priamus, 3, 1–51.
  • Hollier, J.A. (2010) An annotated list of primary types of Orthoptera (Insecta) described by Boris Uvarov and deposited in the collections of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 117(4), 807–810. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148553#page/254/mode/1up
  • Mol, A. & Zeybekoğlu Ünal (2013) Distribution and taxonomy of Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae) species in the Anatolian Black Sea Basin and check list of Turkey subfamily fauna. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 15(2), 69–102. Available at http://www.entomol.org/journal/index.php/JERS/article/view/530
  • Machácková, L. & Fikácek, M. (2014) Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Polyneoptera. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 54(1), 399–450. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/AEMNP/article/download/5409/7899
  • Mol, A., Taylan, M.S. & Sirin, D. (2014) Some Caelifera species (Insecta: Orthoptera) distributed in Turkey with emphasis on new locality records, endemism, common, and agricultural pests. Plant Protection Bulletin, 54(2), 133–170. Available at http://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/428384
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Lapteva, S.V. (2023) To the knowledge of the genus Omocestus I. Bolivar, 1878 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, 94, 23–26. [in Russian]

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Etymology:

Latin nanus, dwarf, relating to the small size.

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