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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Protanita elongata (Bolívar, 1912)

Nomenclature (7)

  • Tanita elongata Bolívar, 1912: 88.

    Holotype; female; 020f0322-aa18-4ef3-8aef-f21925685238; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Katanga, Luena

  • Tanita elongata Bolívar, 1912 in Johnston, 1956: 181.
  • Protanita elongata (Bolívar, 1912) in Johnston, 1968: 121.
  • Protanita elongata (Bolívar, 1912) in Kevan, 1977: 446.

References (7)

  • Bolívar, I. (1912) Orthoptères nouveaux recueillis par le Dr. Sheffield Neave dans le Katanga. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 19, 73–99. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40997#page/97/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 1. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 10–305.
  • 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. (1962) A revision of the tribe Pygomorphini, other than Pyrgomorpha and the flightless genera (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 60, 113–161.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Alluding to elongate body.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1012