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Species

Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775)

Bladder grasshopper
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): Fig. 32.1. male (body length 62-67 mm, pronotum 23.5-27 mm, tegmina 61-67.5 mm). (Otu).
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): Fig. 30.2. female (body length 70-86, pronotum 30-38 mm). (Otu).
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): Fig. 32.3. male face. (Otu).
Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775): Fig. 32.4. female face. (Otu).

Nomenclature (27)

  • Gryllus inanis Fabricius, 1775: 827.

    Holotype; male; e59ebb9f-8d58-464e-9e5b-48eb50356111; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope

  • Pneumora sexguttata Thunberg, 1775: 258.

    Syntype; f61990d8-15fc-4680-ae75-94e9d2311a21; South Africa: Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope

  • Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775) in Couldridge & van Staaden, 2004
  • Pneumora inanis (Fabricius, 1775) in Picker, Griffiths & Weaving, 2005: 90.

References (21)

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  • Thunberg, C.P. (1775) Pneumora, et nytt genus ibland insecterne uptackt och beskrifvit. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 36, 254–260. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/178913#page/287/mode/1up
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1815) Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 5, 211–301. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5woZAAAAYAAJ
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  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
  • Sharp, D. (1895) Insects. Part 1. (Chapters 12-14 Orthoptera continued: Acridiidae, Locustidae, Gryllidae). Cambridge Natural History, 5, 279–329. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64361
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1957) The spermatheca as a taxonomic character in Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (A), 32, 107–114.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1963) The nymphal wing-pad tracheation and adult axillary sclerites of the Pneumoridae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 185–191.
  • 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
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 2. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] A Eumastacoidea Trigonopterygoidea Pneumoroidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 162 pp.
  • Flook, P.K. & Rowell, C.H.F. (1997) The phylogeny of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) as deduced from mtrRNA gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 8, 89–103.
  • 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
  • Picker, M.D., Griffiths, C.L. & Weaving, A. (2005) Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, South Africa, 444 pp.

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