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Dictyophorus (Dictyophorus) spumans spumans (Thunberg, 1787)

Koppie Foam Grasshopper
Dictyophorus (Dictyophorus) spumans spumans (Thunberg, 1787): as D. spumans. dorsal view. (Otu).
Dictyophorus (Dictyophorus) spumans spumans (Thunberg, 1787): as D. spumans. dorsal view. (Otu).
Dictyophorus (Dictyophorus) spumans spumans (Thunberg, 1787): as D. spumans. lateral view. (Otu).
Dictyophorus (Dictyophorus) spumans spumans (Thunberg, 1787): as D. spumans. female, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1531109; 773d31e7-0992-4b2f-ae8a-bf0233f3990c: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531109; 773d31e7-0992-4b2f-ae8a-bf0233f3990c: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531109; 773d31e7-0992-4b2f-ae8a-bf0233f3990c: male, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540683; 52d43f52-a0dd-4160-b3f3-234a35fd78ba: female, lateral view (syntype of Petasia cruentata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540683; 52d43f52-a0dd-4160-b3f3-234a35fd78ba: female, dorsal view (syntype of Petasia cruentata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540683; 52d43f52-a0dd-4160-b3f3-234a35fd78ba: female, labels (syntype of Petasia cruentata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1572740; 9c3ba2eb-96e6-4c65-86a9-1eb2c487dbda: male, lateral view (syntype of Petasia cruentata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1572740; 9c3ba2eb-96e6-4c65-86a9-1eb2c487dbda: male, dorsal view (syntype of Petasia cruentata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1572740; 9c3ba2eb-96e6-4c65-86a9-1eb2c487dbda: male, labels (syntype of Petasia cruentata). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (27)

  • Gryllus spumans Thunberg, 1787: 59.

    Holotype; male; 773d31e7-0992-4b2f-ae8a-bf0233f3990c; deposited at: Uppsala University (UZIU);

  • Dictyophorus spumans (Thunberg, 1787) in Thunberg, 1815: 258.
  • Dictyophorus spumans (Thunberg, 1787) in Naskrecki, 2011: 140.
  • Dictyophorus sponsus [sic] Thunberg, 1787 (misspelling of Gryllus spumans Thunberg, 1787)

References (19)

  • Thunberg, C.P. (1787) Museum naturalium Academiae Upsaliensis, 3.
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1815) Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 5, 211–301. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5woZAAAAYAAJ
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1831) Revue méthodique des insectes de l'ordre des Orthoptères. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 22(86), 28–65, 134–167, 262–292. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29456
  • Schaum, H.R. (1862) Orthoptera. Geradflügler. In Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt. Georg Reimer, Berlin. pp. 107–144. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103636#page/137/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Kirby, W.F. (1890) On the employment of names proposed for genera of Orthoptera, previous to 1840. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 556–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95855#page/572/mode/1up
  • Krauss, H.A. (1901) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Orthopteren Deutsch-Südwestafrikas. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 51, 281–293. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49946
  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). II. Sphenariinae, III. Tapesinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 306–328. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/330/mode/1up
  • Sherborn, C.D. (1930) Index Animalium, 2(24).
  • 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1962) Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) collected in Africa by E. S. Ross and R. E. Leech, 1957-1958, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 31, 227–248. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53423#page/239/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1963) Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the collection of C. P. Thunberg, Uppsala, with notes on type material of the species represented. Arkiv för Zoologi, 16(4), 69–96.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Picker, M.D., Griffiths, C.L. & Weaving, A. (2005) Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, South Africa, 444 pp.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2011) Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine. University of Chicago Press, 384 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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