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Poecilocerastis tricolor tricolor (Bolívar, 1912)

Poecilocerastis tricolor tricolor (Bolívar, 1912): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Poecilocerastis tricolor tricolor (Bolívar, 1912): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Poecilocerastis tricolor tricolor (Bolívar, 1912): female, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Cyphocerastis tricolor Bolívar, 1912: 93.

    Syntype; male; df0a43c2-da12-40ca-bd05-078637da8054; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo, Katanga, Quamboia-Kaloa. Syntype; female; 92ec63cc-5ac4-4f3a-8a5a-47797161d9de; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo, Katanga, Quamboia-Kaloa

  • Poecilocerastis tricolor tricolor (Bolívar, 1912) in Uvarov, 1953: 55.
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  • Poecilocerastis tricolor tricolor (Bolívar, 1912) in Johnston, 1968: 180.
  • Poecilocerastis tricolor tricolor (Bolívar, 1912) in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 128.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Bolívar, I. (1912) Orthoptères nouveaux recueillis par le Dr. Sheffield Neave dans le Katanga. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 19, 73–99. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40997#page/97/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
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  • 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.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2017) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 pp.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of Angola and northern Rhodesia, collected by Dr. Malcolm Burr in 1927-1928. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 21, 9–217.
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald (1964) An ecological survey of grasshoppers of the subfamily Catantopinae in Eastern Central Africa. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 7(1), 333–378.

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