Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)        Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki

Taxa hierarchy  

This is your first entry to the "Taxa hierarchy" display.  You can modify these specifications at any time by clicking the "Change items displayed" button in the header.

Note:  If you want your changes to be preserved for future sessions, you should login.  To do this, click on the logo in the upper left corner.

species Plegmapterus saturatus (Walker, 1870)

• Common name(s):  Yellow-legged Agile Grasshopper
• Images:
• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
  •  
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (6):
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:692   >> Caloptenus saturatus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:48936
  • Uvarov. 1922. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 48:172   >> Note: synonym >> Plegmapterus irisus
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 434 >> Note: synonym >> Plegmapterus irisus
  • Dirsh. 1956. In Hanstrom, Brinck & Rudebeck. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951 3:121-272 >> Plegmapterus saturatus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:48935
  • Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 278 >> Plegmapterus saturatus
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:203 >> Plegmapterus saturatus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa, KwaZulu-Natal
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

	Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki      |      Top of page
Copyright © 2024.  Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.