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species Phaneroptera (Phaneroptera) sparsa Stål, 1857

• Common name(s):  Arabian Sickle Bush-cricke; Sickle-bearing Leaf Katydid
• Images: (41) See all images

  specimen

• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Various habitats with bushes and trees from coast to montane zone.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (37):
  • Stål. 1857[1856]. Ofv. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. 13:170   >> Phaneroptera sparsa    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8152
  • Tümpel. 1901[1898-1901]. Die Geradflügler Mitteleuropas 223, 254 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Jacobson, G.G. & Bianchi. 1905[1902-1905]. Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries 336, 376 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:435   >> Note: synonym >> Phaneroptera nana
  • Sjöstedt. 1933. Ark. Zool. 25A 13:17 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Goidanich. 1940. Boll. Ist. Ent. Bologna 11:105 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Bey-Bienko. 1954. Fauna of the U.S.S.R. 59:76 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Ragge. 1956. Proc. zool. Soc. London 127(2):235 >> Phaneroptera nana sparsa    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8153
  • Ragge & R. Roy. 1961. Mem. Inst. franc. Afr. Noire 62:105 >> Phaneroptera nana sparsa
  • Ragge. 1968. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 22(3):92   >> Phaneroptera nana sparsa
  • Harz. 1969. Ser. Entomol. 5:16 >> Phaneroptera nana sparsa
  • Leroy. 1970. C.R. hebd. Seanc. Acad. Sci. 270:97 >> Phaneroptera nana sparsa
  • Ragge. 1980. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 40(2):136   >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Popov, G.B. 1981. In Wittmer & Buttiker [Ed.]. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 3:134 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Herrera, L. 1982. Ser. Entomol. 22:6 >> Phaneroptera nana sparsa
  • Heller, K.-G. 1988. Ökol. Forsch. Anwend 1:15 >> Note: song >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Ehrmann. 1988. Articulata 3(4):147-150   >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Helfert & Sänger. 1990. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abt. Syst. Geogr. und Biol. der Tiere 117(2):115 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Gangwere & Llorente del Moral. 1992. Eos 68(1):75   >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Massa & Fontana. 1998. Boll. Mus. civ. St. nat. Verona 22:71 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Ingrisch. 1999. Esperiana 7:350 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Katbeh-Bader & Massa. 2001. Jour. Orth. Res. 10(1):27   >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Hemp, C. & A. Hemp. 2003. Ecotropica 9:71-97   >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Mahasneh & Katbeh-Bader. 2004. Denisia 14:250 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Stolyarov. 2005. Trudy Russk. Entomol. Obshch. 76:64 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Massa, Buzzetti & Fontana. 2010. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 3:70-112 >> Note: song >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Hemp, C. 2013. Zootaxa 3613(4):330 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Hemp, C. 2013. Zootaxa 3737(4):340 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Felix & Massa. 2016. 4189 1:33 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Heller, K.-G. 2019. Zootaxa 4563(1):46, 56 >> Phaneroptera (Phaneroptera) sparsa
  • Heller, K.-G., C. Hemp, Massa, Rakotondranary & Krištín. 2019. Zootaxa 4563(2):302 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Naskrecki & Guta. 2019. Zootaxa 4682(1):58 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Massa. 2021. Zootaxa 4948(1):124 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Heller, K.-G., M. Heller, Volleth, Samietz & C. Hemp. 2021. Eur. J. Entomol. 118:113, 117   >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Massa. 2021. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 57(1):48 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Hemp, C. 2021. A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya 331 >> Phaneroptera sparsa
  • Barataud. 2021. Zoosystema 43(29):708, 720   >> Note: Phaneroptera cf. sparsa >> Phaneroptera sparsa
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

• synonym africana Steinmann, 1966
• synonym conspersa Stål, 1874
• synonym lurida Walker, 1869
• synonym punctulata Burr, 1900
• synonym sexpunctata Navás, 1928
• synonym tenuicerca Ramme, 1951
• synonym tetrasticta Gerstaecker, 1869

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