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Phymateus (Phymateus) aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869)

Phymateus (Phymateus) aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869): 2010. Phymateus aegrotus female with Phyteumas purpurascens male atop (S Kilimanjaro, Kidia forest edge, 1700 m). (Otu).
Phymateus (Phymateus) aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869): 2010. Phymateus aegrotus female with Phyteumas purpurascens male atop (S Kilimanjaro, Kidia forest edge, 1700 m). (Otu).
Phymateus (Phymateus) aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869): 2010. male (Kilimanjaro, savanna). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: female, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: female, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501030; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535533; ad7d22a6-4749-47eb-8cac-172b0df7e637: male, lateral view (lectotype of Phymateus hildebrandti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535533; ad7d22a6-4749-47eb-8cac-172b0df7e637: male, dorsal view (lectotype of Phymateus hildebrandti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535533; ad7d22a6-4749-47eb-8cac-172b0df7e637: male, labels (lectotype of Phymateus hildebrandti). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (33)

  • Poecilocera [sic] aegrota Gerstaecker, 1869: 216.

    Holotype; female; 63fc5c50-6f42-47e4-9024-2075539eac25; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Somalia

  • Poecilocera [sic] aegrota Gerstaecker, 1869 in Gerstaecker, 1873: 35.
  • Phymateus (Phymateus) aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869) in Hemp, 2009: 194.
  • Phymateus aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 113.

References (25)

  • Gerstaecker, A. (1869) Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. No. II. Orthoptera et Neuroptera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 35(1), 201–223. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31346#page/209/mode/1up
  • Gerstaecker, A. (1873) Die Gliedertier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. C.F. Winter'sche, Leipzig & Heidelberg, 452 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40556#page/13/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
  • Schulthess, A.von (1894) Die von Fürst Ruspoli und Prof. Dr. C. Keller im Somalilande erbeuteten Orthopteren. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 8, 67–84. [1895] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39594
  • Griffini, A. (1897) Intorno ad alcuni Ortotteri raccolti dal Rev. L. Jalla a kazungula (Alto Zambesi). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 12(290), 1–12. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=4L0WAAAAYAAJ
  • Schulthess, A.von (1898) Orthoptères du Pays des Somalis, recueillis par L. Robecchi-Brichetti en 1891 et par le Prince E. Ruspoli en 1892-93. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 39, 161–216. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33431#page/169/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1901) The Acrididae, Tettigonidae and Gryllidae collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Northeast Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 53, 370–382. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38485
  • Kirby, W.F. (1902) List of a small collection of orthopterous insects formed by Sir Harry Johnston in British East Africa and Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with descriptions of five new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1902(1), 93–101. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98524#page/131/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1903) El género "Phymateus" Thunberg. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 3, 188–192. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28616#page/194/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). IV. Taphronotinae. V. Phymateinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 393–418. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/417/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up
  • Pawlowskii, E.N. (1914) The anatomy of Phymateus hildebrandti Bol. (Orthoptera, Phymateidae) with reference to some peculiarities of its dermal secretion. In Sci. Results Zool. Exped. Brit. E. Africa & Uganda. pp. 1(3), 28 pp. [in Russian]
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1949) Notes on East African bush locusts with special reference to Phymateus aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869) (Orth. Acrid., Pyrgomorphinae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 40, 359–369.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1957) The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 93.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1957) Orthoptera-Caelifera from northern Kenya and Jubaland. II. Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae and Romaleinae. Opuscula Entomologica. Edidit Societas Entomologica Lundensis, 22, 193–208.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1959) Missione biologica Sagan-Omodiretta dal Prof. Edoardo Zavattari: Acridoidea. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale, 16, 61–66.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Johnsen, P. & Forchhammer, P. (1975) Checklist of the Acridomorpha of Tanzania (Insecta: Orthoptera). Natura Jutlandica, 18, 26–52.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • Hemp, C. (2009) Annotated list of Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 18(2), 183–214. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.018.0207
  • 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.

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Etymology:

Latin for sick or ill.

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