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Species

Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810)

Bladder grasshopper
Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810): male, dorsal view. (Otu).
Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810): Fig. 17.1. male (body length 49-53 mm, pronotum 18-23 mm, tegmina 38-47 mm). (Otu).
Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810): Fig. 17.2. female (body length 45-55 mm, pronotum 24-27 mm). (Otu).
Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810): Fig. 17.3. male face. (Otu).
Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810): Fig. 17.4. female face. (Otu).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Pneumora serrata Thunberg, 1810: 64.

    Holotype; female; ec263f8e-f397-48ee-9fe8-b970062b9401; deposited at: Uppsala University (UZIU); South Africa

  • Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810) in Johnston, 1956: 30.
  • Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810) in Couldridge & van Staaden, 2004
  • Bullacris serrata (Thunberg, 1810) in Gordon, Colville, Engelbrecht & Couldridge, 2024: 303, 313, 324, 328, 329, 350.

References (7)

  • Couldridge, V.C.K. & Van Staaden, M.J. (2004) Habitat-dependent transmission of male advertisement calls in bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera; Pneumoridae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 2777–2786. Available at http://caspar.bgsu.edu/~mooi/Home/Publications.html
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) Revision of the family Pneumoridae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 15(10), 325–396. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis15entoond
  • Gordon, M.L., Colville, J.F., Engelbrecht, A. & Couldridge, V.C.K. (2024) Ancient grasshoppers: A revision of the genus Bullacris (Orthoptera: Pneumoridae). Zootaxa, 5474(4), 301–354. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.4.1
  • 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.
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1810) Nya arter af Pneumorae slagtet. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 31, 54–65. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180986#page/60/mode/1up

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Probably relating to serrate anterior portion of pronotum crest.

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