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species

Heteracris somalica (Popov, 1981)

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 5039022e-dca1-46eb-b822-958bcbea621b; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Somalia: Northern region, near Baun

Nomenclature (2)

  • Paraeuprepocnemis somalica Popov, 1981: 180.

    Holotype; male; 5039022e-dca1-46eb-b822-958bcbea621b; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Somalia: Northern region, near Baun

  • Heteracris somalica (Popov, 1981) in Grunshaw, 1991: 41.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • 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
  • Popov, G.B. (1981) Orthoptera: Superfamily Acridoidea. A revision of the Cyclopternacris-Paraeuprepocnemis-Asmara group of genera allied to Hetaracris Walker, 1870, and a description of the new genus Clomacris. In Fauna of Saudi Arabia. Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Basel. Vol. 3, pp. 149–200.
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivesomalicus, somalica, somalicum
Etymology:

Reference to distribution in Somalia.

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