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Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838)

Great Karoo Agile Grasshopper

Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838): lateral view. (Otu).
Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838): lateral view. (Otu).
Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838): lateral view. (Otu).
Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838): as Plegmapteruus ferruginosus. dorsal view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (13)

  • Calliptamus irisus Serville, 1838: 690.

    Neotype; female; 3adb3bc5-1665-4766-88db-4a38d1fd6748; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: Western Cape: Prince Albert

  • Caloptenus [sic] irisus Serville, 1838 in Walker, 1870: 691.
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  • Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838) in Dirsh, 1965: 279.
  • Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838) in Johnston, 1968: 203.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Martínez y Fernández-Castillo, A. (1898) Nuevas especies del grupo Calopteni. Actas de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 27, 34–36. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1175
  • Martínez y Fernández-Castillo, A. (1902) Revisión y estudio del grupo Calopteni. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 30, 253–308. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1181
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314
  • 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
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1922) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. 2. The group of Calliptamini. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 48, 117–177. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51053#page/193/mode/1up
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich

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