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Tanita breviceps (Bolívar, 1882)

CollectionObject 1535563; db1c45bb-d77b-47b6-8589-c21cd7d5f6de: female, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535563; db1c45bb-d77b-47b6-8589-c21cd7d5f6de: female, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535563; db1c45bb-d77b-47b6-8589-c21cd7d5f6de: female, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535563; db1c45bb-d77b-47b6-8589-c21cd7d5f6de: labels (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Pyrgomorpha breviceps Bolívar, 1882: 109.

    Syntype; female; db1c45bb-d77b-47b6-8589-c21cd7d5f6de; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Angola: Malanje: Duque de Braganca (Kalandula Falls)

  • Pyrgomorpha breviceps Bolívar, 1882 in Bolívar, 1884: 429.
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  • Tanita breviceps (Bolívar, 1882) in Johnston, 1968: 119.
  • Tanita breviceps (Bolívar, 1882) in Kevan, 1977: 439.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Bolívar, I. (1882) Etudes sur les insectes d'Angola qui trouvent au Muséum national de Lisbonne. Orthoptères. Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 1), 8, 107–119. [1881] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/jornald25323436187984acad#page/395/
  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/mode/1up
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  • Bolívar, I. (1889) Ortópteros de Africa del Museo de Lisboa. Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 2), 1(2), 73–112. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23044
  • 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.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660

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