Classification > Superfamily
Acridoidea
> Family
Acrididae
> Subfamily
Gomphocerinae
> Tribe
Scyllinini
> Genus
Parapellopedon
Parapellopedon instabilis (Rehn 1906)
Male
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Few records of minimum damages
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Uruguay
Other distribution
BRAZIL: Sao Paulo.
- Scyllina instabilis Rehn 1906
- Rhammatocerus instabilis; Liebermann 1967
This species, which occurs in restricted localities, is probably also present in northeastern and central Argentina. In northern Uruguay it inhabits the northern slopes of rocky hills, covered with tall grasses and shrubs.
Vegetation of natural prairies.
- REHN. 1906b. Notes on South American gasshoppers of the subfamily Acridinae (Acrididae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 30:371-391.:42.
- HEBARD. 1931. Die Ausbeute der deutschen Chaco-Expediton 1925/26. Orthoptera. Konowia. Zeitschrift für systematische insektenkunde, Wien 10:257-285.
- LIEBERMANN. 1939a. Catálogo sistemático y biográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la sociedad Entomológica Argentina 10:125-230
- REHN. 1940b. The applications, relationship and species of Scyllina Stål 1861, and Scyllinops Rehn 1927 (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 68:31-100.
- LIEBERMANN. 1967b. Seis nuevas notas colaterales sobre acridiología argentina (Vi a XI). Physis 26(73):503-508.
- JAGO. 1971. A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world, with a key to the genera (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 123(8):205-343.
- OTTE. 1978. The primary types of Orthoptera (Saltatoria, Mantodea, Phasmatodea and Blattodea) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 130:26-87.
- COPR. 1982. The locust and grasshopper agricultural manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
- MESA ET AL.. 1983. Cariología de los acridoideos neotropicales: estado actual de su conocimiento y nuevas contribuciones. Annales de la Société Entomologiquue de France (N.S.) 18:507-526.
- CARBONELL. 1995. Revision of the tribe Scyllinini, nov. (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 121:87-152.
- GARCÍA, ET AL.. 2003. Sound production in Parapellopedon instabilis (Rehn, 1906) (Orthoptera: Gomphocerinae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (Ann. Soc. ent. Fr.) 39(4):335-342
