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Aneuryphymus erythropus

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Aneuryphymus erythropus (Thunberg, 1815)

(Figs.3C, 4B, 7G, 9)

Gryllus erythropus: Thunberg, 1815:248.

Euryphymus capensis: Martinez 1902:268.

Aneuryphymus erythropus: Uvarov, 1922:170; Johnston, 1956:434; Dirsh, 1956a:223; Dirsh, 1956b:121–272, figs 24.1–3; Dirsh, 1965:259; Johnston, 1968:192.

Type locality. Africa: South Africa, Cape Province.

Material. SOUTH AFRICA: Free State: Bloemfontein (S29.1177, E26.2178) 16.v.1919 coll. Ch. K. Brain— 2♀ (USTB); Botha’s Hill (S29.7504, E30.7488) 03.x.1957 coll. C.G.C. Dickson— 1♂ (Transvaal Museum); Eastern Cape: Burghersdorp (S30.9971, E26.3308) i.1930 coll. P. van Heerden— 1♀ (USTB); G6 - Gilboa Forestry Estate-Mondi Shanduka (S29.2945, E30.3026) 03.xi.2007 coll. C.S. Bazelet and H. Nene— 6♂ (USTB); Grootvadersbos (S33.9847, E20.8106) 01.xi.1940 coll. G. van Son— 1♀ (Transvaal Museum); Transvaal, Makapan, Potgietersrust (S23.1781, E28.6102) 12.xi.1954 coll. Ch. K. Brain— 1♀ (Transvaal Museum); Northern Cape: Pofadder (S29.1283, E19.3949) 02.ii.1944 coll. T. van Niekerk— 1♀ (USTB); Western Cape: Rietfontein (S33.1851, E18.2689) 01.xi.1986 coll. T. Beyers— 1♂ (USTB); Robertson (S33.8039, E19.8858) 26.ix.1927 — 1♀ (USTB).

Distribution. Previously also recorded from Botswana (Faure 1928), Lesotho (Brown 1995) and South Africa (Dirsh 1956b).

Notes

Published as part of Tshililo, Precious, 2020, Review of South African Euryphyminae, pp. 70-104 in Zootaxa 4820 (1) on pages 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4397315

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USTB
Material sample ID
G6
Event date
1919-05-16 , 1927-09-26 , 1940-11-01 , 1944-02-02 , 1954-11-12
Verbatim event date
1919-05-16/1957-10-03 , 1927-09-26/1986-11-01 , 1940-11-01/2007-11-03 , 1944-02-02 , 1954-11-12
Scientific name authorship
Thunberg
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Baissogryllidae
Genus
Aneuryphymus
Species
erythropus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aneuryphymus erythropus (Thunberg, 1815) sec. Tshililo, 2020

References

  • Thunberg, C. P. (1815) Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Memoires de l'Academie de Saint-Petersbourg, 5, 248.
  • Martinez y Fernandez-Castillo. (1902) Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural. Series II. Vol. 30 (XXX), Madrid, 30, 267 - 269.
  • Uvarov, B. P. (1922) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. 2. The group of Calliptamini. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society, 48, 117 - 177. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1922. tb 02828. x
  • Johnston, H. B. (1956) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. Cambridge University Press, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V. M. (1956 a) The Phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in Relation to Taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108 (7), 223 - 356. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1956. tb 02270. x
  • Dirsh, V. M. (1956 b) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In: Hanstrom, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. (Eds.), South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950 - 1951. Vol. 3. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, pp. 121 - 272.
  • Dirsh, V. M. (1965) The African genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, New York, xiv + 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H. B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: supplement. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 427 pp.