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Rhodesiana maculata Dirsh, 1959

Spotted Agile Grasshopper
Rhodesiana maculata Dirsh, 1959: female, lateral view. (Otu).
Rhodesiana maculata Dirsh, 1959: female, lateral view. (Otu).
Rhodesiana maculata Dirsh, 1959: male, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (3)

  • Rhodesiana maculata Dirsh, 1959: 27.

    Holotype; male; 9310b7a9-1e2b-42e7-bc57-47170ef36f92; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Zimbabwe: Beit Bridge

  • Rhodesiana maculata Dirsh, 1959 in Dirsh, 1965: 272.
  • Rhodesiana maculata Dirsh, 1959 in Johnston, 1968: 200.

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) 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:

Alluding to spotted tegmina.

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