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Digentia punctatissima (Stål, 1875)

Digentia punctatissima (Stål, 1875): lateral view. (Otu).
Digentia punctatissima (Stål, 1875): lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Oxya punctatissima Stål, 1875: 33.

    Holotype; male; 4e028c81-54e4-4428-aa61-1613329b7536; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS);

  • Digentia punctatissima (Stål, 1875) in Bolívar, 1905: 229.
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  • Digentia punctatissima (Stål, 1875) in Mestre & Chiffaud, 2006: 122.
  • Digentia punctatissima (Stål, 1875) in Oumarou-Ngoute & Rowell, 2025: 13.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Bolívar, I. (1905) Ortópteros acridioideos de la Guinea española. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 1, 209–240. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44407#page/248/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1918) Estudios entomológicos. Tercera parte. Sección Oxyae. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 34, 1–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48669
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Hollis, D. (1975) A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 31(6), 189–234. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2355540#page/269/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) In Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
  • Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2025) Review of the African genus Digentia Stål, 1878 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 11–30. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.126949
  • Stål, C. (1875) Observations orthoptérologiques. 1. Sur une systématisation nouvelle des Phasmides. 2. Sur le système des Acdridiides. 3. Diagnoses d'Orthoptères nouveaux. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 3(14), 1–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49924#page/521/mode/1up

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