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Species

Eyprepocnemis calceata (Serville, 1838)

Eyprepocnemis calceata (Serville, 1838): dorsal view. (Otu).
Eyprepocnemis calceata (Serville, 1838): dorsal view. (Otu).
Eyprepocnemis calceata (Serville, 1838): male, lateral view. (Otu).
FieldOccurrence 455; c5558aaf-d655-493a-ae76-31b19d7c6495; Signal Hill Kapstadt, 2014/01/16: female, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (12)

  • Acridium calceatum Serville, 1838: 683.

    Neotype; male; ea598664-9ec0-48a3-adf7-a6b2f9007642; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Cape Peninsula, Rondebosch, Wynberg Hill

  • Heteracris annulifera Walker, 1870: 659.

    Holotype; female; f0302ae2-f99e-4663-948e-53d8eeaa0354; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope

  • Eyprepocnemis calceata (Serville, 1838) in Johnston, 1968: 206.
  • Eyprepocnemis calceata (Serville, 1838) in Pronk, Pryke, Samways & Bazelet, 2017

References (9)

  • 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
  • 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
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1921) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. I. the group Euprepocnemini. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1921, 106–144. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51239#page/180/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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Revision of the genus Eyprepocnemis Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 27, 33–45. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1958.tb00407.x
  • 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.
  • Pronk, B.M., Pryke, J.S., Samways, M.J. & Bazelet, C.S. (2017) Range restricted grasshoppers better conserved in a terrestrial zone than in a riparian zone. Journal of Insect Conservation, 21(1), 97–109. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-017-9957-3

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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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Species1045