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species Plegmapterus irisus (Serville, 1838)

• Common name(s):  Great Karoo Agile Grasshopper
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• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères 690   >> Calliptamus irisus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:48939
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:691   >> Caloptenus irisus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:474425
  • Martínez y Fernández-Castillo. 1902. An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 30:266   >> Euryphymus irisus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:48940
  • Uvarov. 1922. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 48:172   >> Plegmapterus irisus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:48938
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 434 >> Plegmapterus irisus
  • Dirsh. 1956. In Hanstrom, Brinck & Rudebeck. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951 3:208, 211 >> Plegmapterus irisus
  • Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 279 >> Plegmapterus irisus
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:203 >> Plegmapterus irisus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa, Cape Province, Western Cape Province, Prince Albert
  • Kind of type:  neotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym ferruginosus (Stål, 1873)

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