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Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953

This name is not valid/accepted. The valid name is Cultrinotus poultoni Bolívar, 1915.
Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953 now Cultrinotus poultoni Bolívar, 1915: male, lateral view (Cultrinotus luanensis). (Otu).
Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953 now Cultrinotus poultoni Bolívar, 1915: male, lateral view (Cultrinotus luanensis). (Otu).
Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953 now Cultrinotus poultoni Bolívar, 1915: female, lateral view (Cultrinotus luanensis). (Otu).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953: 157-9.

    Holotype; male; 14f07df6-746c-4981-8e5f-5d262688edf0; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Zambia: Lusaka: Luano Valley

  • Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953 in Dirsh, 1956: 223.
  • Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953 in Willemse, 1994: 439.
  • Cultrinotus luanensis Uvarov, 1953 (subjective synonym of Cultrinotus poultoni Bolívar, 1915) in Massa, 2026: 14.

References (8)

  • Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Some effects of past climatic changes on the distribution of African Acrididae. Trans. Congr. Ent. Amsterdam, 2, 157–159.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Revision of the group Portheti (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 34, 299–400. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155628
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Willemse, L. (1994) Additional records of Acridoidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from Zambia with the description of a new genus and two new species. Journal of African Zoology, 108(5), 435–466.
  • Massa, B. (2026) New records of Orthoptera from Zambia (Tettigoniidae; Pamphagidae). Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 41(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.21426/b6.60868

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the type locality Luano Valley.

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