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Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905

Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905: Oumarou-Ngoute's photo of Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolivar 1905, female, lateral view, from Lobeke National Park, Cameroon; 4-XII-2023. (Otu).
Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905: Oumarou-Ngoute's photo of Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolivar 1905, female, lateral view, from Lobeke National Park, Cameroon; 4-XII-2023. (Otu).
Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905: Oumarou-Ngoute's photo of Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolivar 1905, female, latero-dorsal view, from Lobeke National Park, Cameroon; 4-XII-2023. (Otu).
Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905: Oumarou-Ngoute's photo of Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolivar 1905, male, latero-dorsal view, from Lobeke National Park, Cameroon; 8-XII-2023. (Otu).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; MNCN_Ent 119720; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Cameroon

Nomenclature (6)

  • Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905: 227.

    Holotype; male; MNCN_Ent 119720; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Cameroon

  • Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905 in Kirby, 1910: 386.
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  • Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905 in Hollis, 1975: 226.
  • Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905 in Rowell & Oumarou-Ngoute, 2025: 36.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
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  • 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.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Oumarou-Ngoute, C. (2025) Review of Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 986, 1–104. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.986.2853
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Asserted distribution
Collection object
Type material

Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in apposition
Etymology:

Relating to the blue head.

Pterotiltus coeruleocephalus Bolívar, 1905

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