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Catoptropteryx ambigua Huxley 1970

Creators

  • 1. Department of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale Scienze Bd 5 A, 90128 Palermo, Italy (retired) bruno. massa @ unipa. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2127 - 0715
  • 2. Association Insectes du Monde, Sabine, 09230 Sainte Croix Volvestre, France. pannoyer @ hotmail. com
  • 3. 3, chemin du Tarda, 31190 Mauressac France. samuel. danflous @ espaces-naturels. fr
  • 4. 24, avenue Lucien Servanty 31700 Blagnac, France. guilhem. duvot @ gmail. com

Description

Catoptropteryx ambigua Huxley, 1970

Material examined. CAR. Dzanga-Sangha SR, Camp 1, 25–26.I.2005 (light), P. Annoyer (1♂, 1♀); Camp 3, in a little “baï” 5.II.2005 (light), P. Annoyer (2♂); Ombella-M’poko prefecture, Bangui, after the cornice, in di- rection to N’garagba, 6.X.2008, P. Annoyer (1♀); Camp 1, 10–19.X.2008, 15–16.X.2008 (light), P. Annoyer (7♂, 1♀); Camp 2, 19–20.X.2008, 21–22.X.2008, P. Annoyer (2♂, 2♀); Camp 2, on a Kungu (Piptadenastrium africanum, Fabaceae) (platform 40m), 23–24.X.2008 (light), P. Annoyer (3♂) (PAPC); Dzanga-Ndoki NP, Lake 1, 2– 3.XII.2010 (light), P. Annoyer (1♂); Lake 1, 28–29.I.2012, 1.II.2012, 9–10.II.2012, 10–11.II.2012, 11–12.II.2012, 12–13.II.2012, 14–15.II.2012, 15–16.II.2012, 19–20.II.2012, 21–22.II.2012, 22–23.II.2012, 23–24.II.2012, 24– 25.II.2012, 25–26.II.2012, 26–27.II.2012 (light), SANGHA2012 Team (37♂, 11♀) (BMPC & PAPC); Dzanga- Ndoki NP, Lake 3, 25–26.II.2012 (light), P. Annoyer (1♂); Lake 7, 2–3.II.2012, 3–4.II.2012 (light) SANGHA2012 Team (3♂, 1♀) (BMPC).

Distribution. C. ambigua was described from Uganda and recorded also from Cameroon, CAR, and Democratic Republic of Congo (Huxley 1970, Massa 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Massa, Bruno, Annoyer, Philippe, Perez, Cyrille, Danflous, Samuel & Duvot, Guilhem, 2020, Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Conocephalinae, Hexacentrinae, Phaneropterinae Mecopodinae, Hetrodinae) from some protected areas of Central African Republic, pp. 401-447 in Zootaxa 4780 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3855195

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/60229B62F14C7104FF196CA813B4CC9A

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3855195 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/9C1BE31AF15C7114FF8E6C49114DCE31 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9066F7B3-7289-4C44-B576-E57528F909FB (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/60229B62F14C7104FF196CA813B4CC9A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164299830 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21855/taxon/60229B62F14C7104FF196CA813B4CC9A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Phaneropteridae
Genus
Catoptropteryx
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Huxley
Species
ambigua
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Catoptropteryx ambigua Huxley, 1970 sec. Massa, Annoyer, Perez, Danflous & Duvot, 2020

References

  • Huxley, J. (1970) A revision of the genus Catoptropteryx Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin British Museum Natural History (Entomology), 24, 129 - 170. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1520
  • Massa, B. (2013) Diversity of leaf katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) of Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic, with selected records from other African countries. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 22 (2), 125 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.022.0201