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Phymateus (Phymateus) pulcherrimus Bolívar, 1904

CollectionObject 1535532; f59709b3-677d-411d-8381-19657f1d7714: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535532; f59709b3-677d-411d-8381-19657f1d7714: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535532; f59709b3-677d-411d-8381-19657f1d7714: male, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535532; f59709b3-677d-411d-8381-19657f1d7714: labels (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1580388; 510ed40a-2848-4d6f-9822-4d81dd898944: male, lateral view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1580388; 510ed40a-2848-4d6f-9822-4d81dd898944: male, dorsal view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1580388; 510ed40a-2848-4d6f-9822-4d81dd898944: labels (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Phymateus pulcherrimus Bolívar, 1904: 408.
  • Phymateus pulcherrimus Bolívar, 1904
  • Phymateus pulcherrimus Bolívar, 1904 in Centre for Overseas Pest Research, 1982: 50.
  • Phymateus pulcherrimus Bolívar, 1904 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 113.

References (10)

  • 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
  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). VI. Poecilocerinae. VII. Pyrgomorphinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 432–459. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/456/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • 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. (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.
  • 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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:

Latin: most or very beautiful.

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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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Species1001