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Parga xanthoptera (Stål, 1855)

Parga xanthoptera (Stål, 1855): Fig. 62. male, dorsal view. (Otu).
Parga xanthoptera (Stål, 1855): Fig. 62. male, dorsal view. (Otu).
Parga xanthoptera (Stål, 1855): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Parga xanthoptera (Stål, 1855): dorsal view. (Otu).
Parga xanthoptera (Stål, 1855): male, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (31)

  • Amycus xanthopterus Stål, 1855: 353.

    Syntype; male; f94f36e1-b421-4a28-9bb3-73d436aa2de9; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); KwaZulu-Natal

  • Amycus rhodiopterus Stål, 1855: 353.

    Holotype; female; b387dcb0-ecf7-4140-82af-1fc46c517b7a; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal: Durban, Port Natal

  • Parga xanthoptera (Stål, 1855) in Popov, Fishpool & Rowell, 2019: 100.
  • Amycus rhodinopterus [sic] (Stål, 1855) (misspelling of Amycus rhodiopterus Stål, 1855)

References (23)

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  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich
  • Stål, C. (1873) Acridiodea. In Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm. Vol. 1, 154 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ
  • Bormans, A.de (1883) Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equatoriale. Resultati zoologici. Ortotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 18, 704–708. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95241#page/711/mode/1up
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  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1907) Ortotteri Africani. Parte I Acridoidea. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 22(554), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43468#page/41/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1913) Neue Orthopteren aus Ost-und Westafrika nebst einigen anderen zugehörigen Formen. Arkiv för Zoologi, 8(6), 1–26. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30180#page/99/mode/1up
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  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1932) Orthopterentypen in Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. 2. Acrididae. Arkiv för Zoologi, 24(1), 89 pp.
  • Chopard, L. (1945) Orthopteroides recueillis dans les montagnes du Cameroun par la Mission Lepesme, Paulian, Villers. Revue Française d'Entomologie, 11, 156–178, 27 figs.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1970) Acridoidea of the Congo (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 8(182), 1–605.
  • Whellan, J.A. (1979) Parga xanthoptera (Stål) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in South Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 42(2), 287–288.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • 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/

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