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Shoacris bormansi (Bolívar, 1884)

CollectionObject 1535531; 1ed528d2-3893-461f-99a4-c71ae9b1d677: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535531; 1ed528d2-3893-461f-99a4-c71ae9b1d677: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535531; 1ed528d2-3893-461f-99a4-c71ae9b1d677: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535531; 1ed528d2-3893-461f-99a4-c71ae9b1d677: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Chrotogonus bormansi Bolívar, 1884: 39.

    Holotype; female; 1ed528d2-3893-461f-99a4-c71ae9b1d677; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Ethiopia: Shoa [Shewa], Kolla de Giagane

  • Chrotogonus (Shoacris) bormansi Bolívar, 1884 in Kevan, 1952: 93.
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  • Shoacris bormansi (Bolívar, 1884) in Otte, 1994: 53.
  • Shoacris bormansi (Bolívar, 1884) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 134.

References (10)

  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/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) 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1952) A study of the genus Chrotogonus Audinet Serville, 1839 (Orth., Acrid., Pyrgomorphinae). I. The subgenera Obbiacris, nov. and Shoacris, nov. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 25(2), 87–96. Available at http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=seg-001%3A1952%3A25%3A%3A72#102
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1957) A study of the genus Chrotogonus Audinet-Serville, 1839 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). IV. Wing polymorphism, technical designations and preliminary synonymy. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 100, 43–60. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95649#page/333/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1959) A study of the genus Chrotogonus Audinet-Serville, 1839 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Pyrgomorphidae). V. A revisional monograph of the Chrotogonini. VI. The history and biogeography. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 43, 11–199.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After Bormans to whose collection the specimen belonged.

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