Ornithacris turbida
| Autor: | Usmani, Mohammad Kamil |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.5231522 |
| Popis: | 16. Ornithacris turbida (Walker, 1870) Diagnosis: The genus can easily be separated from Anacridium and Schistocerca by its prostemal process which is strongly curved backwards, nearly touching mesosterum, inflated in middle, with conical apex; male subgenital plate elongate, acutely conical, male circus straight, very wide in basal part. Habitats: The species feeds on a wide variety of grasses. A grassland species but partly arboricolous. The specimens were collected from alfalfa and grass from one locality only. Probably a migrating species but true swarming is not known. Material examined: Wadi Haya region, Al Abyad, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, on alfalfa &grass, 2.xi.1993. Localities: Libya: Fezzan: AlAbyad. Distribution: Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Sudan, Congo. Remarks: This subspecies is distributed in Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda and in Libya approximately at 13 N. latitude (Dirsh, 1964). Published as part of Usmani, Mohammad Kamil, 2008, Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya, pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 1946 on page 20 |
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