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Ornithacris pictula magnifica (Bolívar, 1882)

Ornithacris pictula magnifica (Bolívar, 1882): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Ornithacris pictula magnifica (Bolívar, 1882): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Ornithacris pictula magnifica (Bolívar, 1882): dorsal view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (16)

  • Acridium magnificum Bolívar, 1882: 113.

    Syntype; 4b72553f-e2e3-4dda-9ec5-bf90ca99fe8b; deposited at: Universidade de Lisboa (LZLP); Angola: Malanje: Duque de Braganca (Kalandula Falls)

  • Ornithacris cyanea magnifica (Bolívar, 1882) in Uvarov, 1942: 136, 137.
  • Ornithacris pictula magnifica (Bolívar, 1882) in Mestre & Chiffaud, 2006: 212.
  • Ornithacris pictula magnifica (Bolívar, 1882) in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 74.

References (16)

  • Bolívar, I. (1882) Etudes sur les insectes d'Angola qui trouvent au Muséum national de Lisbonne. Orthoptères. Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 1), 8, 107–119. [1881] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/jornald25323436187984acad#page/395/
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1942) A revision of the genus Ornithacris Uvarov, 1924 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9, 135–140.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1943) The bird-locusts of the African genus Ornithacris (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 95, 111–137, 6 pls.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of Angola and northern Rhodesia, collected by Dr. Malcolm Burr in 1927-1928. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 21, 9–217.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1955) Contributions a l'étude de la faune entomologique du Ruanda-Urundi (Mission P. Bsilewsky 1953). LIII. Orthotpera Acrididae. Annales du Musee du Congo Belge Tervuren (Belgique) Sciences Zoologiques, 40, 67–72.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald (1964) An ecological survey of grasshoppers of the subfamily Catantopinae in Eastern Central Africa. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 7(1), 333–378.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • Mungai, M.N. (1987) A taxonomic revision of the genus Ornithacris based on the internal morphology of male genitalia (Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Eos, Revista Española de Entomología, 63, 153–169. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/171644
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Paul, J. (1997) One and a half years of Kenyan Orthoptera: 2. Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae and spur-throated Acrididae. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 109, 193–198. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30062433#page/211/mode/1up
  • Roy, R. (2003) Les Acridiens du Nimba et de sa région. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelle Série. Série A. Zoologie, 190, 311–391. Available at http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/pdf/abrev/Acridi.pdf
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.

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