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A new Grasshopper (Orth. Acrididae) damaging Groundnuts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

V. M. Dirsh
Affiliation:
Anti-Locust Research Centre.

Extract

Pyrgomorphella arachidis, sp. n.

♂ (Type). Of medium size, slender, finely rugulose.

Antenna of 17 segments, shorter than head and pronotum together, thick, slightly flattened and scarcely broadened at the base. Fastigium of vertex long, parabolic, ratio of its length to the width between eyes, 1·8. On the lateral sides of head behind the eyes there is a series of callosities forming a longitudinal stripe, which continues on to the lateral lobe of pronotum.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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