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Platygryllus melanocephalus (Serville, 1838)

Nomenclature (16)

  • Gryllus melanocephalus Serville, 1838: 342.

    Syntype; female; 906b901f-b8f2-4a54-ac8f-2a39d2410ab9; India: West Bengal

  • Gryllus melanocephalus Serville, 1838 in Saussure, 1877: 342.
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  • Platygryllus melanocephalus (Serville, 1838) in François & Defaut, 2018: 416.
  • Platygryllus melanocephalus (Serville, 1838) in Gupta & Chandra, 2018: 642.

Nomenclature references (16)

  • Bhowmik, H.K. (1977) Studies on some Indian crickets with new distributional records of the subfamily Gryllinae (Gryllidae: Orthoptera). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 73(1-4), 229–238.
  • Bhowmik, H.K. (1985) Contribution to the gryllid fauna of the Western Himalayas (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 73, 1–85. Available at https://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/occpapers/073/index.pdf
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  • Bolívar, I. (1922) Orthoptères. Première Partie. In Voyage de M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en Éthiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905) : résultats scientifiques : animaux articulés. Paris. 167–219 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/156285#page/195/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1954) Orthoptera-Ensifera from Kenya and Jubaland. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 105, 315–353.
  • Chopard, L. (1961) Les divisions du genre Gryllus basées sur l'étude de l'appareil copulateur (Orth. Gryllidae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 37(3), 267–287. [1960] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/157258
  • Chopard, L. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 213 pp.
  • Chopard, L. (1969) Orthoptera. Vol. 2. Grylloidea. In The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xviii, 1–421. Available at https://archive.org/details/IndianGrylloidea
  • de Saussure, H. (1877) Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(1), 169–504 [1–352]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35307
  • François, A. & Defaut, B. (2018) Un nouveau grillon du genre Platygryllus de l’oriental marocain (Orthoptera, Gryllidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 123(4), 411–428.
  • Gupta, S.K. & Chandra, K. (2018) An annotated check-list of Orthoptera (Insecta) from Jammu & Kashmir, India. Munis Entomology and Zoology, 13(2), 632–646. Available at http://www.munisentzool.org/Issue/abstract/an-annotated-check-list-of-orthoptera-insecta-from-jammu-amp-kashmir-india_1222
  • Kirby, W.F. (1899) Notes on a collection of Gryllidae, Stenopelmatidae; Gryllacridae, and Hetrodidae formed by Mr. W.L. Distant in the Transvaal and other South- and East-African localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3, 475–480. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63341#page/515/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Randell, R.L. (1964) The male genitalia in Gryllinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) and a tribal revision. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1565–1607.
  • Schulthess, A.von (1898) Orthoptères du Pays des Somalis, recueillis par L. Robecchi-Brichetti en 1891 et par le Prince E. Ruspoli en 1892-93. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 39, 161–216. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33431#page/169/mode/1up
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314
  • Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf

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