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subspecies Calliptamus plebeius plebeius (Walker, 1870)

• Common name(s):  Canarian Pincer Grasshopper
• Images: (12) See all images

  specimen

• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (11):
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:673   >> Heteracris plebeia
  • Uvarov. 1925[1924]. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 72(3-4):299 >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Ramme. 1951. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 27:309 >> Calliptamus plebejus
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 443 >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Chopard. 1962. Notul. ent., Helsinki 42:68 >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Jago. 1963. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 13(9):347   >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 251 >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:183 >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Herrera, L. 1982. Ser. Entomol. 22:73 >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Hochkirch. 1997. Articulata 12(2):192   >> Calliptamus plebeius
  • Köhler. 2010. Articulata 25(1):29-43   >> Calliptamus plebeius
• See species plebeius for additional information.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Macaronesia, Canary Is.
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym vulcanius Krauss, 1892

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