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species Pycnodictya obscura (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (13):
  • Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae (10th ed.) 1:433   >> Gryllus (Locusta) obscurus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:64355
  • Linnaeus. 1767. Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae 1, pt. 2:701   >> Gryllus (Locusta) obscurus
  • Westwood. 1837. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Containing Upward of Six Hundred and Fifty Figures and Descriptions of Foreign Insects Interspersed with Remarks and Reflections on their Nature and Properties 1-3:87   >> Locusta obscura    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:523057
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:738   >> Oedipoda obscura    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:474555
  • Stål. 1873. Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1:121   >> Pycnodictya obscura    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:64354
  • Giglio-Tos. 1907. Boll. Musei Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 22(554):8   >> Note: 1 female from Mogadishu >> Pycnodictya obscura
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):223   >> Pycnodictya obscura
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 549 >> Pycnodictya obscura
  • Dirsh. 1956. In Hanstrom, Brinck & Rudebeck. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951 3:231, 265 >> Pycnodictya obscura
  • Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 478 >> Pycnodictya obscura
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:337 >> Pycnodictya obscura
  • Marshall, J.A. 1983. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 78(4):390 >> Note: no material in LS coll., 1 f MLU Uppsala >> Pycnodictya obscura
  • Hemp, C. & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2020. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae 182 >> Pycnodictya obscura
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type

• synonym rosacea (Serville, 1838)

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