New and interesting Orthoptera from the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra
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New and interesting Orthoptera from the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra
This paper reports on some interesting taxa recently found in the Arabian Peninsula and the island of Socotra. Among them is a new species of brachypterous grasshopper Sphodromerus carapezzanussp. n. (Acrididae: Calliptaminae), described from an isolated area in Dhofar (Oman). A female Heteracris hemiptera (Uvarov, 1935) (Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae) is reported, with morphological characters ...
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عنوان ژورنال: ZooKeys
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1313-2970,1313-2989
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.679.11967