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Phaeocatantops decoratus decoratus (Gerstaecker, 1869)

CollectionObject 1501589; d223c316-ed5e-485c-af7d-f5dfedca3261: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501589; d223c316-ed5e-485c-af7d-f5dfedca3261: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501589; d223c316-ed5e-485c-af7d-f5dfedca3261: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501589; d223c316-ed5e-485c-af7d-f5dfedca3261: female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501589; d223c316-ed5e-485c-af7d-f5dfedca3261: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501589; d223c316-ed5e-485c-af7d-f5dfedca3261: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501949; 100779a0-3574-498c-9a28-07ac15685333: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501949; 100779a0-3574-498c-9a28-07ac15685333: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501949; 100779a0-3574-498c-9a28-07ac15685333: female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501949; 100779a0-3574-498c-9a28-07ac15685333: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501949; 100779a0-3574-498c-9a28-07ac15685333: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (22)

  • Catantops decoratus Gerstaecker, 1869: 219.

    Syntype; female; d223c316-ed5e-485c-af7d-f5dfedca3261; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Zanzibar. Syntype; female; 100779a0-3574-498c-9a28-07ac15685333; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Kenya

  • Catantops decoratus Gerstaecker, 1869 in Gerstaecker, 1873: 44.
  • Phaeocatantops decoratus (Gerstaecker, 1869) in Rowell & Hemp, 2018: 168.
  • Phaeocatantops decorus [sic] Gerstaecker, 1869 (misspelling of Catantops decoratus Gerstaecker, 1869)

References (21)

  • Gerstaecker, A. (1869) Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. No. II. Orthoptera et Neuroptera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 35(1), 201–223. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31346#page/209/mode/1up
  • Gerstaecker, A. (1873) Die Gliedertier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. C.F. Winter'sche, Leipzig & Heidelberg, 452 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40556#page/13/mode/1up
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1900) Vorarbeiten zu einer Orthopterologie Ostafrika's II. Einige Gattungen Feldheuschrecken, Acridodea. Entomologische Nachrichten, 26, 274–287. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42207#page/290/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1942) A preliminary revision of the decoratus-group of the genus Catantops Schaum, 1853 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9, 402–409.
  • Dirsh, V.M. & Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Preliminary diagnoses of new genera and new synonymy in Acrididae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 96, 231–237. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89813#page/259/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Preliminary revision of the genus Catantops Schaum and review of the group Catantopini (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 28, 11–151.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1959) Missione biologica Sagan-Omodiretta dal Prof. Edoardo Zavattari: Acridoidea. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale, 16, 61–66.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Knipper, H. (1961) Geradflügler aus Ostafrika (Orthopteroida, Dermapteroida und Blattopteroida). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 11(3-4), 356–413. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/506
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald (1964) An ecological survey of grasshoppers of the subfamily Catantopinae in Eastern Central Africa. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 7(1), 333–378.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1967) Orthoptera-Caelifera from northern Kenya and Jubaland IV. Acrididae, s. str.: Colopteninae, Euryphyminae, Eyprepocnemidinae, Catantopinae, Cytacanthacridinae. Journal of Natural History, 1, 75–96.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • Jago, N.D. (1982) The African genus Phaeocatantops Dirsh and its allies in the Old World tropical genus Xenocatantops Dirsh, with description of a new species (Orth.: Acridoidea, Acrididae, Catantopinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 108(4), 429–457.
  • Hemp, C. & Hemp, A. (2003) Saltatoria coenoses of high-altitude grasslands on Mt. Kilimanjaro Tanzania (Orthoptera: Saltatoria). Ecotropica, 9, 71–97. Available at http://www.soctropecol.eu/publications/pdf/9%201-2/Hemp,%20Hemp,%202003.pdf
  • 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
  • Hemp, C. (2017) Annotated checklist of Orthoptera from Kazimzumbwi forest reserve, the description of new species from Tanzania, East Africa and biogeographic patterns of threatened species. Zootaxa, 4226(2), 151–193.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2018) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 3. Acrididae: Catantopinae. 224 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Subspecies1045