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Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959

Bandarbeyla Agile Grasshopper

CollectionObject 1520378; d062d591-9120-4025-a025-683e6883b266: dorsal view, male (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520378; d062d591-9120-4025-a025-683e6883b266: dorsal view, male (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520378; d062d591-9120-4025-a025-683e6883b266: lateral view, male (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2073513; 2c7ff5a3-8bf3-4975-a13d-8c4b74b2d754: dorsal view, female (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2073513; 2c7ff5a3-8bf3-4975-a13d-8c4b74b2d754: lateral view, female (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; d062d591-9120-4025-a025-683e6883b266; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Somalia: Near Bender Beila, Mijertein

Nomenclature (5)

  • Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959: 30.

    Holotype; male; d062d591-9120-4025-a025-683e6883b266; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Somalia: Near Bender Beila, Mijertein

  • Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959 in Dirsh, 1965: 282.
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  • Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959 in Otte, 1995: 175.
  • Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959 in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 30.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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.
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  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

External links to websites
Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectiverugosus, rugosa, rugosum
Etymology:

Reference to the strongly rugose body.

Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959

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