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Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 1875)

Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 1875): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 1875): female, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1502463; 7e340042-63b0-4f99-9b23-8484542d979c: male, lateral view (paratype of Tauchira bifasciata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502463; 7e340042-63b0-4f99-9b23-8484542d979c: male, frontal view (paratype of Tauchira bifasciata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502463; 7e340042-63b0-4f99-9b23-8484542d979c: male, dorsal view (paratype of Tauchira bifasciata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502463; 7e340042-63b0-4f99-9b23-8484542d979c: male, ventral view (paratype of Tauchira bifasciata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502463; 7e340042-63b0-4f99-9b23-8484542d979c: labels (paratype of Tauchira bifasciata). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (16)

  • Oxya polychroa Stål, 1875: 32.

    Holotype; female; 06f5eac3-58ee-4ab2-97f3-7515a9226c60; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Malaysia: Melaka: Malacca

  • Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 1875) in Kirby, 1910: 397.
  • Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 1875) in Tan & Kamaruddin, 2016: 26.
  • Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 1875) in He, Mao & Li, 2026: 152, 153.

References (13)

  • Stål, C. (1875) Observations orthoptérologiques. 1. Sur une systématisation nouvelle des Phasmides. 2. Sur le système des Acdridiides. 3. Diagnoses d'Orthoptères nouveaux. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 3(14), 1–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49924#page/521/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Bolívar, I. (1918) Estudios entomológicos. Tercera parte. Sección Oxyae. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 34, 1–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48669
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1925) Description d'un nouveau genre d'orthoptère (Fam. Acridiodea, sous-famille Cyrtacanthacrinae). Hortus Botanicus Bogoriensis, Java (Treubia), 6(3-4), 355–359.
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1930) Fauna Sumatrensis (Bijdrage Nr. 62) Preliminary revision of the Acrididae (Orthoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 73, 1–210. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89680#page/125/mode/1up
  • Ramme, W. (1941) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Acrididen-Fauna des indomalayischen und benachbarter Gebiete (Orth.). Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tiergeographie von Celebes. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 25, 1–243. [1940]
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1955) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 8, 3–225. [1956]
  • Hollis, D. (1975) A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 31(6), 189–234. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2355540#page/269/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2009) New and little-known Orthoptera from South-East Asia. Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 80(1), 11–20.
  • Tan, M.K. & Kamaruddin, K.N. (2014) Orthoptera of Fraser's Hill, Peninsular Malaysia. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore, 88 pp. Available at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/orthorptera_fraser%E2%80%99s_hill.pdf
  • Tan, M.K. & Kamaruddin, K.N. (2016) A contribution to the knowledge of Orthoptera diversity from Peninsular Malaysia: Bukit Larut, Perak. Zootaxa, 4111(1), 21–40.
  • He, Y., Mao, B.-Y. & Li, M. (2026) New species of the Tauchira Stål, 1878 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Yunnan, China with a key to known species. Zootaxa, 5869(1), 150–158. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5869.1.12

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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