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Taxa hierarchy
subfamily
Oedipodinae
Walker, 1871
tribe
Sphingonotini
Johnston, 1956
genus
Cophotylus
Krauss, 1902
species
Cophotylus
purpureus
(Uvarov, 1940)
urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:67219
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial.
Specimen records
are available.
Citations:
Uvarov. 1940. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 11 6:55 >>
Sphingonotus
purpureus
urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:67220
Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. 1951. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries 2:610 [258]
>>
Cophotylus
purpureus
urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:67219
Shumakov. 1963. Trudy Vses. Entomol. Obshch. [= Horae Soc. Entomol. Union. Sov.] 49:152 >>
Cophotylus
purpureus
Bey-Bienko. 1967. Acta Entomol. Bohemoslov 64:431 >>
Cophotylus
purpureus
Type specimen information:
Type locality: Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Afghanistan, Dukhtar-a-Kaffin Hill, near Kabul
Kind of type: holotype
Specimen category: female
Location of type: BMNH London NH Mus.
synonym
adustus
Ramme, 1952
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