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Kingdonella wardi Uvarov, 1933

CollectionObject 1565162; 228b7edc-108a-42c2-8b2c-8ff64baa0b7f: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565162; 228b7edc-108a-42c2-8b2c-8ff64baa0b7f: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565162; 228b7edc-108a-42c2-8b2c-8ff64baa0b7f: female,dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565162; 228b7edc-108a-42c2-8b2c-8ff64baa0b7f: female, ventral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565162; 228b7edc-108a-42c2-8b2c-8ff64baa0b7f: female, frontal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565162; 228b7edc-108a-42c2-8b2c-8ff64baa0b7f: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565163; 411c2130-b21c-4a78-bbf8-166f1ca55787: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565163; 411c2130-b21c-4a78-bbf8-166f1ca55787: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565163; 411c2130-b21c-4a78-bbf8-166f1ca55787: male, ventral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565163; 411c2130-b21c-4a78-bbf8-166f1ca55787: male, frontal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565163; 411c2130-b21c-4a78-bbf8-166f1ca55787: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Kingdonella wardi Uvarov, 1933: 469.

    Holotype; individual; 032dd2f0-ba87-4fd5-a0be-fa11ae4d9dea; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); China: Xizang: sources of Irrawadi River

  • Kingdonella wardi Uvarov, 1933 in Uvarov, 1939: 573.
  • Kingdonella wardi Uvarov, 1933 in Zhang, Zhang & Yin, 2012: 699.
  • Kingdonella wardi Uvarov, 1933 in Chen, Zhang & Li, 2024: 256, 263.

References (9)

  • Uvarov, B.P. (1933) Kingdonella wardi, gen. et sp. n., a new grasshopper (Orthoptera, Acrididae) from the Assam Himalayas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 11(64), 468–470.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1939) Some Acrididae from South-eastern Tibet. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 40(3), 561–574.
  • Chang, K.S.F. (1940) The group Podismae from China (Acrididae, Orthoptera). Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise. Musée Heude, 7, 31–97, 3 pls.
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 1, 1–400 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224096#page/9/mode/1up
  • Mistshenko, L. (1952) Locusts and grasshoppers, Catantopinae. The Fauna of Russia (= The USSR Fauna). New Series., 4(2), 610 pp.
  • Yin, X.-C. (1984) Insects of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau.
  • Li, H. & Xia, K.-L. (2006) Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 43.
  • Zhang, D.-C., Zhang, Y. & Yin, X.-C. (2012) A new subfamily of the grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Gomphoceridae) from the Tibetan Plateau of China. Insect Science, 19(6), 699–702.
  • Chen, J., Zhang, Y. & Li, X. (2024) Two new species of the genus Kingdonella Uvarov, 1933 (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) and the first reported male of Kingdonella qinghaiensis Zheng, 1990. ZooKeys, 1205, 253–265. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1205.127999

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after Mr. F. Kingdon Ward who collected the specimens.

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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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