Published March 14, 2025
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Dictyophorus griseus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Nijmegen, Netherlands
- 2. Arnhem, Netherlands
- 3. Plasmolen, Netherlands
- 4. Warnsveld, Netherlands
- 5. Giessen, Germany
- 6. Laguna Niguel, USA
Description
Dictyophorus griseus (Reiche & Fairmaire, 1849)
Fig. 117
Distribution and occurrence.
Dictyophorus griseus is a common and widespread species in tropical Africa. The only known specimen from Socotra was photographed on 16 Jan 2019 near Hadiboh (Fig. 117). It is not a native species to the Archipelago and must have been introduced. It was probably ship-assisted.
Habitat and biology.
Dictyophorus griseus is a woodland species in its native range, but can also be a severe pest in agricultural fields and gardens (Rowell et al. 2015). Future colonisations must be eliminated at an early stage since this species can become invasive and significantly threaten native Orthoptera species.
Notes
Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Reiche & Fairmaire
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Acrididae
- Genus
- Dictyophorus
- Species
- griseus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dictyophorus griseus (Reiche, 1849) sec. Felix, Bouwman, Odé, Ketelaar, Pham & Bailey, 2025
References
- Rowell C, Hemp C, Harvey A (2015) Jago's grasshoppers and locusts of East and Northeast Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. Blurb Publishers, San Francisco, 238 pp.