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Rhachitopis curvipes subsp. curvipes curvipes (Stal 1876

Description

Rhachitopis curvipes curvipes (Stål, 1876)

Euryphymus curvipes: Stål, 1876:41; Martínez y Fernández-Castillo. 1902:271.

Rhachitopis curvipes curvipes: Uvarov, 1922:143; Dirsh, 1956:121–272, figs. 27. 3–5; Johnston, 1956: 423; Dirsh, 1956:223; Dirsh, 1965: 263; Johnston, 1968:194; Naskrecki, 1992:61–63, figs, 82.14–20.

Type locality. Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia, Damaraland. No type examined.

Material. SOUTH AFRICA: Free State: Bethlehem (S28.2330, E28.3087) 25.iii.1922 — 2♂ (Transvaal Museum); Herbert (S29.6589, E24.6635) 15.v.1917 — 1♀; Northern Cape: Namaqualand (S30.1660, E17.7987)— 2♀ (Transvaal Museum); Petrusburg (S29.1159, E25.4143) 26.iv.1917 coll. J.C. Faure— 1♂ (Transvaal Museum); Smithfield District (S30.2017, E26.5259) 09.v.1917 — 1♂; Steytlersville (S33.3208, E24.3235) iii.1934 — 1♀ (Transvaal Museum).

Distribution. Previously recorded from Namibia (Naskrecki 1995) and South Africa and S.W Africa (Dirsh 1956b).

Notes

Published as part of Tshililo, Precious, 2020, Review of South African Euryphyminae, pp. 70-104 in Zootaxa 4820 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4397315

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1917-04-26 , 1917-05-15
Family
Baissogryllidae
Genus
Rhachitopis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
curvipes (Stal
Species
curvipes
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1917-04-26 , 1917-05-15/1922-03-25
Taxonomic concept label
Rhachitopis curvipes subsp. curvipes (Stal, 1876 sec. Tshililo, 2020

References

  • Stal, C. (1876) Bidrag till sodra Afrikas Orthopter-fauna. Ofversigt Kongliga Vetenskaps-akademiens Forhandlingar, Stockholm, 33 (3), 31 - 58.
  • 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. (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.
  • Naskrecki, P. A. (1992) A taxonomic revision of the Southern African Genus Rhachitopis Uvarov, 1922 (Acridoidea: Euryphyminae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 1, 58 - 72. http: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3503561
  • Naskrecki, P. (1995) A review of the Euryphyminae of Namibia and Angola (Insecta: Acridoidea). Cimbebasia, 14, 71 - 83.
  • 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.