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Heteracris attenuata (Uvarov, 1921)

Heteracris attenuata (Uvarov, 1921): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Heteracris attenuata (Uvarov, 1921): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Heteracris attenuata (Uvarov, 1921): female, lateral view. (Otu).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; bd94f833-5058-4f87-ad35-9dd6cc79d455; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Zambia: Fwambo

Nomenclature (22)

  • Thisoicetrus attenuatus Uvarov, 1921: 127.

    Holotype; male; bd94f833-5058-4f87-ad35-9dd6cc79d455; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Zambia: Fwambo

  • Thisoicetrus caudatus Ramme, 1929: 474.

    Holotype; male; e46dacf0-fd57-46e8-866d-e99b73832491; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); United Republic of Tanzania: Mbeya: Manow

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  • Heteracris attenuata (Uvarov, 1921) in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 180.
  • Heteracris attenuata (Uvarov, 1921) in Hodjat, Tork, Seiedy & Defaut, 2018: 43.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1970) Acridoidea of the Congo (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 8(182), 1–605.
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  • Grunshaw, J.P. (1991) A revision of the grasshopper genus Heteracris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae). Natural Resources Institute Bulletin, 38, i-iv, 1–106. Available at http://gala.gre.ac.uk/11108/1/11108_Grunshaw_A%20revision%20of%20the%20grasshopper%20genus%20%28book%29%201991.pdf
  • Hodjat, S.H., Tork, M., Seiedy, M. & Defaut, B. (2018) A taxonomic review of recorded species of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in Iran. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 23, 35–75. Available at https://ascete.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MOE_23_HODJAT_et_al_Acrididea_from-Iran_2018-01-02.pdf
  • 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.
  • Ramme, W. (1929) Afrikanische Acrididae. Revisionen und Beschreibungen wenig bekannter und neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15, 247–492.
  • Ramme, W. (1931) Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen zu meiner Arbeit "Afrikanische Acrididae" (Orth.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 16(6), 918–945. [1930]
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2017) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 pp.
  • 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
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1939) A preliminary revision of the Palaearctic species and subspecies of Thisoicetrus Br. W. (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Novitates Zoologicae: A Journal of Zoology in Connection with the Tring Museum, 41, 377–382. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/106287#page/423/mode/1up
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald (1964) An ecological survey of grasshoppers of the subfamily Catantopinae in Eastern Central Africa. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 7(1), 333–378.
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Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectiveattenuatus, attenuata, attenuatum
Heteracris attenuata (Uvarov, 1921)

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