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species

Melanoplus basifer (Walker, 1870)

Type specimen

Holotype; female; b12f3919-17a6-4053-bd8c-16386484f202; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); unknown

Nomenclature (4)

  • Catantops basifer Walker, 1870: 713. (nomen dubium; valid)

    Holotype; female; b12f3919-17a6-4053-bd8c-16386484f202; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); unknown

  • Catantops basifer Walker, 1870 in Kirby, 1910: 479.
  • Catantops basifer Walker, 1870 (subjective synonym of Pezotettix mexicana Saussure, 1861) in Uvarov, 1925: 298.
  • Melanoplus basifer (Walker, 1870) in Otte, 1997: 183.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • 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
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 6. Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and Addenda to OSF Vols. 1-5. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 261 pp.
  • 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]
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Melanoplus basifer (Walker, 1870)

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