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Platygryllus viator (Kirby, 1906) (Nomen dubium)

Platygryllus viator (Kirby, 1906): Pl. 12,Fig10, as Gryllus melanocephalus. male, illustrations. (Otu).
Platygryllus viator (Kirby, 1906): Pl. 12,Fig10, as Gryllus melanocephalus. male, illustrations. (Otu).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Gryllus melanocephalus Saussure, 1877: 174, pl. 12. (homonym)
  • Gryllus melanocephalus Saussure, 1877 (synonym of Gryllus viator Kirby, 1906)
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  • Platygryllus viator (Kirby, 1906) in Otte & Cade, 1984: 65.
  • Platygryllus viator (Kirby, 1906) in Otte, 1994: 4.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Chopard, L. (1938) Mission scientifique de l'Omo: Orthoptera I. Dictyoptera, Phasmodea, Ensifera. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelle Série. Série A. Zoologie, 8, 89–134. Available at http://archive.org/details/biostor-253873/mode/2up
  • Chopard, L. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 213 pp.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Otte, D. & Cade, W.H. (1984) African crickets (Gryllidae). 4. The genus Platygryllus from eastern and southern Africa (Gryllinae, Gryllini). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 136, 45–66.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.

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