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family
Acrididae
MacLeay, 1821
subfamily
Coptacrinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
genus
Parepistaurus
Karsch, 1896
species
Parepistaurus
jagoi
Green, 1998
urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46287
Common name(s): West Usambara Wigwag Grasshopper
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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
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Parepistaurus
jagoi
urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46287
Hemp, C., Kehl, Schultz, J.W. Wägele & A. Hemp. 2015. Systematic Ent. 40:17-34
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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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