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Nomenclature (2)

  • Pteropera balachowskyi Donskoff, 1981: 52.

    Holotype; male; MNHN-EO-CAELIF11013; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Gabon: between Mimongo and Kulamutu

  • Pteropera balachowskyi Donskoff, 1981 in Yetchom Fondjo, Nzoko Fiemapong, Tindo, Fite, Ivković & Husemann, 2024: 253, 257.

References (2)

  • Donskoff, M. (1981) Les acridiens de la foret africaine 1. Revision du genre Pteropera Karsch 1891 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 17(1), 33–88. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6141355v/f42.item
  • Yetchom Fondjo, J.A., Nzoko Fiemapong, A.R., Tindo, M., Fite, T., Ivković, S. & Husemann, M. (2024) Taxonomic review of the grasshopper genus Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididea, Catantopinae) with description of three new species and a preliminary phylogeny of the Cameroonian species. ZooKeys, 1216, 219–264. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1216.130270

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

After A.S. Balachowsky, who collected specimens of other species treated in Donskoff's revision of the genus.

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