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Subspecies

Oxycatantops spissus uranius (Kirby, 1902)

FieldOccurrence 46; 5d3009fe-6889-404f-b4ac-3a4f3fccb439; Tanzania East Chenene forest reserve Miombo woodlands Dodoma Region, 2023/07/12: (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 46; 5d3009fe-6889-404f-b4ac-3a4f3fccb439; Tanzania East Chenene forest reserve Miombo woodlands Dodoma Region, 2023/07/12: (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 46; 5d3009fe-6889-404f-b4ac-3a4f3fccb439; Tanzania East Chenene forest reserve Miombo woodlands Dodoma Region, 2023/07/12: (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 46; 5d3009fe-6889-404f-b4ac-3a4f3fccb439; Tanzania East Chenene forest reserve Miombo woodlands Dodoma Region, 2023/07/12: female. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 46; 5d3009fe-6889-404f-b4ac-3a4f3fccb439; Tanzania East Chenene forest reserve Miombo woodlands Dodoma Region, 2023/07/12: female, head and pronotum. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 46; 5d3009fe-6889-404f-b4ac-3a4f3fccb439; Tanzania East Chenene forest reserve Miombo woodlands Dodoma Region, 2023/07/12: female, wing detail. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 47; 7141242e-5ed9-48c7-b4d1-1200b285c68d; United Republic of Tanzania: Dodoma East Chenene forest reserve, Miombo woodlands, 2023/07/12: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 47; 7141242e-5ed9-48c7-b4d1-1200b285c68d; United Republic of Tanzania: Dodoma East Chenene forest reserve, Miombo woodlands, 2023/07/12: male, apex. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 47; 7141242e-5ed9-48c7-b4d1-1200b285c68d; United Republic of Tanzania: Dodoma East Chenene forest reserve, Miombo woodlands, 2023/07/12: male, wing detail. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 85; 57383f51-23ca-4622-aa30-b209e9fe2768; East Chenene Miombo woodlands, 2017/06/14: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 85; 57383f51-23ca-4622-aa30-b209e9fe2768; East Chenene Miombo woodlands, 2017/06/14: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 206; 568ce47f-d7d7-4809-be09-2a84d8096fae; Tanzania East Chenene forest reserve Miombo woodlands Dodoma Region, 2019/02/05: male, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Catantops urania Kirby, 1902: 107. (valid)
  • Catantops urania Kirby, 1902 (synonym of Acridium adustum Walker, 1870) in Uvarov, 1925: 297.
  • Oxycatantops spissus uranius (Kirby, 1902) in Jago, 1989: 229, 230.
  • Oxycatantops spissus uranius (Kirby, 1902) in Rowell & Hemp, 2018: 152.

References (6)

  • Kirby, W.F. (1902) Report on a collection of African Locustidae formed by Mr. W. L. Distant, chiefly from the Transvaal. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1902, 57–114, 231–241. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48243#page/95/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum 4. Identification of the types of Acrididae preserved in the Museum. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 72(3-4), 265–301. [1924]
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Jago, N.D. (1984) The alate genera of east African Catantopinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) including revision of the genus Catantops Schaum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 110(3), 295–387.
  • Jago, N.D. (1989) Revision of the African grasshopper genus Oxycatantops Dirsh & Uvarov 1953 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea Acrididae, Catantopidae). Tropical Zoology, 2(2), 207–234.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2018) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 3. Acrididae: Catantopinae. 224 pp.

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