Paratettix scaber
Authors/Creators
- 1. SIGTET-Special Interest Group Tetrigidae Auf der Hees 1, D- 41849 Wassenberg, Germany
Description
Paratettix scaber (Thunberg, 1815)
Acrydium scabrum Thunberg, 1815
Tettix scaber (Thunberg, 1815) designated by Stål (1873)
Paratettix scaber (Thunberg, 1815) designated by Bolívar, 1887
Lectotype: ♀ (UZIU; OSF), South Africa, „ Caffraria “. Lectotype designated by Hendrik Devriese.
Paralectotype: ♀ (UZIU; OSF), South Africa, „ Caffraria “.
The third ♀, second paralectotype of this series, labeled as type of Acrydium scabrum (Thunbergsaml. nr. 22187 from UZIU; OSF) belongs to Tetrix fuliginosa.
https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/808981/specimen_records
Current synonym:
Paratettix marshalli Hancock, 1908
(holotype ♂, UMO; OSF), South Africa, Cape Town, Rondebosch,
Discussion: no remarks.
Last informative publication: Devriese et al. (2023).
Distribution: South Africa, Botswana, Namibia. West Indies (records in Hugel (2014) as Paratettix cf. scaber are doubtful). Records of Paratettix scaber from Asia are wrong. It is a South African species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UZIU
- Scientific name authorship
- Thunberg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Tetrigidae
- Genus
- Paratettix
- Species
- scaber
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype , paralectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paratettix scaber (Thunberg, 1815) sec. Tumbrinck, 2026
References
- Thunberg, C. P. (1815). Descriptio Acridii. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 7, 157-162.
- Bolivar, I. (1887) Essai sur les Acridiens de la tribu des Tettigidae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 31, 175-313.
- Devriese, H., Nguyen, E. & Husemann, M. (2023) An identification key to the Afrotropical species of Paratettix, Leptacrydium, Rectitettix, Alienitettix, and Hedotettix with description of two new genera and four new species and with remarks on Afrotropical Tetrigini (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae, Tetrigini). Zootaxa, 5258 (3), 511-556. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5285.3.4
- Hugel, S. (2014) Grasshoppers of the Mascarene Islands: new species and new records (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Zootaxa, 3900 (3), 399-414. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3900.3.4