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Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959

Short-legged Agile Grasshopper

Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959: female, lateral view. (Otu).
Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959: female, dorsal view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (3)

  • Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959: 25.

    Holotype; male; a48c8f1e-77d6-413f-b0d2-b79722e4329a; deposited at: Transvaal Museum (TMSA); South Africa: Northern Cape: Soebatsfontein

  • Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959 in Dirsh, 1965: 277.
  • Plegmapteroides minutus Dirsh, 1959 in Johnston, 1968: 203.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1959) New genera and species of Acridoidea from tropical Africa (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 35, 21–39. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155679
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to small body size.

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