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Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964

Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964: male, lateral view (paratype). (Otu).
Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964: male, lateral view (paratype). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1518515; d34f4d08-2061-4bc4-be5c-9eef55cd1923: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518515; d34f4d08-2061-4bc4-be5c-9eef55cd1923: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518515; d34f4d08-2061-4bc4-be5c-9eef55cd1923: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571069; 80d8de4d-cdef-479c-9f6b-f33c9f2d8d6c: male, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571069; 80d8de4d-cdef-479c-9f6b-f33c9f2d8d6c: male, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571069; 80d8de4d-cdef-479c-9f6b-f33c9f2d8d6c: labels (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (4)

  • Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964: 1505, 1530.

    Holotype; female; d34f4d08-2061-4bc4-be5c-9eef55cd1923; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Somalia: Mijertein, near Eil

  • Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Johnston, 1968: 110.
  • Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Kevan, 1977: 491.
  • Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 136.

References (4)

  • 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. (1964) The Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), their systematics, tribal divisions and distribution. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1505–1536.
  • 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:

Round-winged, reference to subcircular tegmina.

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