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species Parepistaurus jagoi Green, 1998

• Common name(s):  West Usambara Wigwag Grasshopper
• Images:
• Links:
  • The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
• Distribution:
  •  
   West Usambara Mountains, 450–1800 m
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Lowland to submontane and montane forest and forest edges.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Green, S.V. 1998. Tropical Zoology 11:296   >> Parepistaurus jagoi    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46287
  • Hemp, C., Kehl, Schultz, J.W. Wägele & A. Hemp. 2015. Systematic Ent. 40:17-34   >> Parepistaurus jagoi
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 112 >> Parepistaurus jagoi
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, East Tropical Africa, Tanzania, Usambara Mountains, Mazumbai
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

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