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Pyrgomorpha (Phymelloides) rugosa (Key, 1937)

Nomenclature (8)

  • Pyrgomorphella rugosa Key, 1937: 164.

    Holotype; male; ae4713ff-ee3a-43ce-87bf-bb70e8ad99e9; deposited at: Iziko Museums of Cape Town (SAMC); South Africa: Western Cape: SE of Calitzdorp

  • Pyrgomorphella rugosa Key, 1937 in Johnston, 1956: 175.
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  • Phymelloides rugosus (Key, 1937) in Kevan, 1977: 496.
  • Pyrgomorpha (Phymelloides) rugosus (Key, 1937) in Kevan & Hsiung, 1985: 83.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Akbar, S.S. (1963) Three new genera of flightless Pyrgomorphini erected on the basis of their phallic structures (Orth.: Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 39, 405–422. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/158411
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Hsiung, C. (1985) The tropical and southern African species of Pyrgomorpha Audinet-Serville, 1838 other than the P. conica group (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 48(1), 49–192.
  • 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. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Key, K.H.L. (1937) New Acrididae from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 135–167, 5 pls. 2 figs.

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