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species Parepistaurus pygmaeus (Karny, 1909)

• Common name(s):  East Usambara Wigwag Grasshopper
• Images: (10) See all images

  specimen

• Links:
  • The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (10):
  • Karny. 1909. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abt. Syst. Geogr. und Biol. der Tiere 27:479   >> Serpusia pygmaea    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46306
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 286 >> Serpusia pygmaea
  • Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 334 >> Serpusia pygmaea
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:235 >> Serpusia pygmaea
  • Johnsen. 1982. Acridoidea of Zambia 2:82-162 [continuation] >> Parepistaurus pygmaeus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46305
  • Hochkirch. 1995. Mitt. Dtsch. Ges. Allg. Angew. Entomol. 10:297-300 >> Parepistaurus pygmaeus
  • Green, S.V. 1998. Tropical Zoology 11:309   >> Note: redescription >> Parepistaurus pygmaeus
  • Hochkirch. 2010. Relict species - phylogeography and conservation biology 148 >> Parepistaurus pygmaeus
  • Hemp, C., Kehl, Schultz, J.W. Wägele & A. Hemp. 2015. Systematic Ent. 40:17-34   >> Parepistaurus pygmaeus
  • 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 116 >> Parepistaurus pygmaeus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, East Tropical Africa, Tanzania, East Usambara Mountains, Amani
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  SMFD Frankfurt

• synonym amanicus Uvarov, 1953

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