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Species

Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870)

Humped Agile Grasshopper
Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870): head and pronotum, lateral view. (Otu).
Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870): supraanal plate, male. (Otu).
Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870): epiphallus. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1565553; 5e343dcb-e5e0-4648-9518-8d6b6fa218d6: male, lateral view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565553; 5e343dcb-e5e0-4648-9518-8d6b6fa218d6: male, dorsal view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565553; 5e343dcb-e5e0-4648-9518-8d6b6fa218d6: male, ventral view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565553; 5e343dcb-e5e0-4648-9518-8d6b6fa218d6: male, frontal view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565553; 5e343dcb-e5e0-4648-9518-8d6b6fa218d6: labels (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565554; 9685f0cb-24f9-4155-8a6b-01ee48b109f9: female, lateral view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565554; 9685f0cb-24f9-4155-8a6b-01ee48b109f9: female, dorsal view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565554; 9685f0cb-24f9-4155-8a6b-01ee48b109f9: female, ventral view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565554; 9685f0cb-24f9-4155-8a6b-01ee48b109f9: female, frontal view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1565554; 9685f0cb-24f9-4155-8a6b-01ee48b109f9: labels (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581354; d18679ea-e33e-4579-a0d2-508d59d3ed19: female, dorsal view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581354; d18679ea-e33e-4579-a0d2-508d59d3ed19: female, frontal view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581354; d18679ea-e33e-4579-a0d2-508d59d3ed19: female, ventral view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581354; d18679ea-e33e-4579-a0d2-508d59d3ed19: labels (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581355; 01f57366-c7c5-4b86-b290-8a97cf0d212b: female, dorsal view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581355; 01f57366-c7c5-4b86-b290-8a97cf0d212b: female, lateral view (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581355; 01f57366-c7c5-4b86-b290-8a97cf0d212b: labels (paratype of Rhachitopis ceraseus). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (17)

  • Caloptenus [sic] crassus Walker, 1870: 694.

    Holotype; male; 3a337c4c-5ec7-4fe3-9c9b-1735f322a55a; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa

  • Euryphymus crassus (Walker, 1870) in Kirby, 1902: 99.
  • Rhachitopis ceraseus Uvarov, 1922 (subjective synonym of Caloptenus [sic] crassus Walker, 1870) in Naskrecki, 1992: 59.
  • Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870) in Naskrecki, 1992: 59.

References (11)

  • Walker, F. (1870) 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
  • Kirby, W.F. (1902) List of a small collection of orthopterous insects formed by Sir Harry Johnston in British East Africa and Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with descriptions of five new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1902(1), 93–101. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98524#page/131/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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Brown, H.D. (1962) New and interesting grasshoppers from southern Africa - 3 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 25(2), 198–229. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/25/2/AJA00128789_3701
  • 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.
  • Petersen, G. & Gaedike, H. (1970) Katalog der in den Sammlungen des Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes aufbewahrten Typen II. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 20(1-2), 145–172. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/923
  • Naskrecki, P. (1992) A taxonomic revision of the southern African genus Rhachitopis Uvarov, 1922 (Acridoidea: Euryphyminae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 1, 58–72.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1034