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Valanga meleager (Sjöstedt, 1921)

Coastal Valanga

Type specimen

Syntype; male; 3b02d429-e16a-4413-b9c6-15f7f8e38476; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: Queensland

Nomenclature (8)

  • Acridium meleager Sjöstedt, 1921: 263.

    Syntype; male; 3b02d429-e16a-4413-b9c6-15f7f8e38476; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: Queensland

  • Valanga meleager (Sjöstedt, 1921) in Uvarov, 1923: 351.
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  • Valanga meleager (Sjöstedt, 1921) in Key, 1986: 29.
  • Valanga meleager (Sjöstedt, 1921) in Rentz, Lewis, Su & Upton, 2003: 340.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1979) The species and synonymy of the genus Cyrtacanthacris (Orth. Acrididae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 53, 35–50. [1977] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/166944
  • Key, K.H.L. (1986) A provisional synonomic list of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 24, 1–47.
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  • Rentz, D.C.F., Lewis, R.C., Su, Y.N. & Upton, M.S. (2003) In A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts. Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. v-ix, 1–419.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1921) Acridiodea Australica. Monographie der bisher von Australien bekannten Heuschrecken mit kurzen Fühlern. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 62(3), 1–318. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60366953#page/1/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1935) Revision der australischen Cyrtacanthacrinen (Orth. Acrid.). In VI Congreso Internacional de Entomología Madrid. 173–178 pp.
  • Steinmann, H. (1970) The Tetricidae (Orthoptera) of the Notogea. Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 10, 155–164. Available at http://opuscula.elte.hu/PDF/Opuscula10_1_1970/Steinmann,%20H_10_1_11.pdf
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1923) A revision of the Old World Cyrtacanthacrini (Orthoptera, Acrididae). III. Genera Valanga to Patanga. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12, 345–367.
  • Weidner, H. & Wagner, W. (1968) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg VII. Teil. Insecta IV. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 65, 123–179. Available at http://www.cenak.uni-hamburg.de/sammlungen/zoologie/entomologie/typenkatalog/weidner-1968-caelifera-homoptera.pdf
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Asserted distribution
Collection object
Type material

Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in apposition
Etymology:

In Greek mythology one of the Argonauts.

Valanga meleager (Sjöstedt, 1921)

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