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subspecies Zonocerus elegans elegans (Thunberg, 1815)

• Common name(s):  Elegant Grasshopper
• Images: (30) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (26):
  • Thunberg. 1815. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Peterburg 5:226   >> Gryllus elegans
  • Bolívar, I. 1884. An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 13:459   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Griffini. 1897. Boll. Musei Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 12(290):10   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Krauss. 1901. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 51:287   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Bolívar, I. 1904. Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 4:418   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):315   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Sjöstedt. 1910[1909]. In Sjöstedt [Ed.]. Abteilung 15-22. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt 3:179   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Sherborn. 1926. Index Anim. 2(9):2099 >> Gryllus elegans
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1955. Publ. Cult. Comp. Diamant. Angola 24:61 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1955. Beiträge zur Entomologie 5:482   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Dirsh. 1955. Ann. Mus. Congo Belge, Zool. 40:72 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Hartwig. 1955. Fmg. in S. Afr. 73:1-4 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Dirsh. 1956. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 108(7):223 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 158 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Ossowski & Wartmann. 1959[1958-1959]. Rep. Wattle Res. Inst. 12:47 >> Locusta (Zonocerus) elegans    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:117887
  • Dirsh. 1961. Eos 37:379   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1962. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4 31:234   >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 148 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • COPR (Centre for Overseas Pest Research). 1982. The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual 40 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 1997. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 8:89-103 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Hemp, C. & A. Hemp. 2003. Ecotropica 9:71-97   >> Zonocerus elegans elegans
  • Baccetti. 2004. Redia 86:27 >> Zonocerus elegans elegans
  • Picker, M., Griffiths & Weaving. 2005. Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa 96 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Hemp, C. 2009. Jour. Orth. Res. 18(2):195   >> Zonocerus elegans elegans
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser, C. Hemp & Harvey. 2015. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae 163 >> Zonocerus elegans
  • Lecoq. 2019. In Lecoq & Long Zhang [Ed.]. Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World 196-199 >> Zonocerus elegans elegans
• See species elegans for additional information.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  UZIU Uppsala

• synonym atriceps (Gerstaecker, 1869)
• synonym brevipennis Saussure, 1899
• synonym hova Saussure, 1899
• synonym roseipennis (Serville, 1831)

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