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Pterotiltus giorgii Ramme, 1929

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 5deb3f56-67ae-415c-ba50-8299c8eb2407; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Équateur: Yambata

Nomenclature (6)

  • Pterotiltus giorgii Ramme, 1929: 317.

    Holotype; female; 5deb3f56-67ae-415c-ba50-8299c8eb2407; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Équateur: Yambata

  • Pterotiltus georgii [sic] Ramme, 1929 in Johnston, 1956: 259.
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  • Pterotiltus giorgii Ramme, 1929 in Rowell & Oumarou-Ngoute, 2025: 49.
  • Pterotiltus georgii [sic] Ramme, 1929 (misspelling of Pterotiltus giorgii Ramme, 1929)

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In 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
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 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.
  • 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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Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in genitive case
Etymology:

After Stephano Oronzo Vicenzo de Giorgi who collected the specimen.

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