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Parga musanae Sjöstedt, 1932

CollectionObject 1501394; f6ab8549-1de4-4d28-b3e1-6521b34c2a56: female, dorsal view (holotype of Parga musanae f. aurea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501394; f6ab8549-1de4-4d28-b3e1-6521b34c2a56: female, dorsal view (holotype of Parga musanae f. aurea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501394; f6ab8549-1de4-4d28-b3e1-6521b34c2a56: labels (holotype of Parga musanae f. aurea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501395; b35487d8-af2c-4f55-aa47-6d9230929d40: female, lateral view (holotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501395; b35487d8-af2c-4f55-aa47-6d9230929d40: female, dorsal view (holotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501395; b35487d8-af2c-4f55-aa47-6d9230929d40: female, ventral view (holotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501395; b35487d8-af2c-4f55-aa47-6d9230929d40: labels (holotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501900; c77f82d7-82a7-416f-8049-68efa8ae04af: male, lateral view (allotype of Parga musanae f. aurea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501900; c77f82d7-82a7-416f-8049-68efa8ae04af: male, dorsal view (allotype of Parga musanae f. aurea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501900; c77f82d7-82a7-416f-8049-68efa8ae04af: male, ventral view (allotype of Parga musanae f. aurea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501900; c77f82d7-82a7-416f-8049-68efa8ae04af: labels (allotype of Parga musanae f. aurea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501901; 2a093887-ca15-4f0e-8a26-3b5d6227af8d: male, lateral view (allotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501901; 2a093887-ca15-4f0e-8a26-3b5d6227af8d: male, dorsal view (allotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501901; 2a093887-ca15-4f0e-8a26-3b5d6227af8d: male, vantral view (allotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501901; 2a093887-ca15-4f0e-8a26-3b5d6227af8d: labels (allotype of Parga musanae f. vinacea). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 7733ebb9-89ee-49c5-abef-f0f923b5aad8; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Katanga: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Musana

Nomenclature (15)

  • Parga xanthoptera var. musanae Sjöstedt, 1932: 4.

    Holotype; female; 7733ebb9-89ee-49c5-abef-f0f923b5aad8; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Katanga: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Musana

  • Parga aurata Sjöstedt, 1932: 15. (homonym)

    Holotype; female; 7a577a88-faa7-4fc5-8bec-97f05312b6f9; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Pundu

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  • Parga musanae Sjöstedt, 1932 in Mestre & Chiffaud, 2006: 233.
  • Parga musanae Sjöstedt, 1932 in Popov, Fishpool & Rowell, 2019: 100.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1970) Acridoidea of the Congo (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 8(182), 1–605.
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  • Jago, N.D. (1968) A checklist of the grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) recorded from Ghana, with biological notes and extracts from the recent literature. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 94, 209–353.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) In Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
  • Popov, G.B., Fishpool, L.D.C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2019) A review of the Acridinae s. str. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) of eastern Africa with taxonomic changes and description of new taxa. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 28(1), 37–105. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/29312/
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1931) Acridiodea aus Kongo und anderen Teilen von Afrika. Arkiv för Zoologi, 22A(15), 64 pp.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1932) Acridoidea von der Goldküste, Ob. Volta. Nebst einer Revision der Gattung Parga Walker. Arkiv för Zoologi, 23A(17), 1–36. [1931]
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Named after type locality Musana.

Parga musanae Sjöstedt, 1932

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