Type specimen

Holotype; male; a480c0ec-1ddf-464a-a614-2925432fadb5; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); China: Posho, Themthok Gompa

Nomenclature (4)

  • Omocestus tibetanus Uvarov, 1939: 562.

    Holotype; male; a480c0ec-1ddf-464a-a614-2925432fadb5; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); China: Posho, Themthok Gompa

  • Omocestus tibetanus Uvarov, 1939 in Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951: 479 [109].
  • Aeropedelloides tibetanus (Uvarov, 1939) in Yin & Xia, 2003: 39.
  • Omocestus (Tarbinskius) tibetanus Uvarov, 1939 in Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023: 26.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • 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
  • 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]
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1939) Some Acrididae from South-eastern Tibet. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 40(3), 561–574.
  • Yin, X.-C. & Xia, K.-L. (2003) Orthoptera Acridoidea. Supplement Gomphoceridae and Acrididae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 32(supplement), 1–280.
Asserted distribution
Collection object
Type material

Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivetibetanus, tibetana, tibetanum
Etymology:

Named after distribution in Tibet.

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