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species

Heteracris aethiopica (Ramme, 1929)

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 21d8ffd1-98ec-46f8-a19b-4c14474c0a3a; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN);

Nomenclature (9)

  • Parathisoicetrus aethiopicus Ramme, 1929: 476.

    Holotype; male; 21d8ffd1-98ec-46f8-a19b-4c14474c0a3a; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN);

  • Parathisoicetrus aethiopicus Ramme, 1929 in Kevan, 1955: 481.
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  • Heteracris aethiopica (Ramme, 1929) in Schmidt & Johnsen, 1999: 21.
  • Heteracris aethiopica (Ramme, 1929) in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 178.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
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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
  • 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1955) E. African Blattodea, Phasmatodea and Orthoptera. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Ostafrika-Expedition 1951/52, Gruppe Lindner, Stuttgart, Nr. 5. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 5, 472–485. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/267
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Schmidt, G.H. & Johnsen, P. (1999) Short-horned grasshoppers from Ethiopia and Eritrea (East Africa) (Orthopteroidea, Caelifera). Fragmenta Entomologica, 31(1), 15–36. Available at http://www.fragmentaentomol.org/index.php/fragmenta/legacy
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectiveaethiopicus, aethiopica, aethiopicum

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