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Tanita brachyptera Bolívar, 1912

Nomenclature (11)

  • Tanita brachyptera Bolívar, 1912: 89.

    Holotype; female; 33d5acc6-a28f-48eb-ab93-143cebc1e51a; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo, road from Luena

  • Tanita brachyptera Bolívar, 1912 in Johnston, 1956: 180.
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  • Tanita neavei Kevan, 1962 (subjective synonym of Tanita brachyptera Bolívar, 1912) in Kevan, 1977: 439.
  • Tanita neavei Kevan, 1962 (subjective synonym of Tanita brachyptera Bolívar, 1912) in Otte, 1994: 124.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • 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.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1975) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth.: Acridoidea). Part VI. (Conclusion). Tribes Pyrgomorphini and Chrotogonini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 49, 131–218. [1973] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/165215
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to short wings.

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