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Acridoidea
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Acrididae
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Ommatolampidinae
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Abracrini
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Omalotettix
Omalotettix obliquus (Thunberg 1824)
Female, El Impenetrable National Park © Holger Braun
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Few records of minimum damages
- Argentina
- Chaco
- Jujuy
- Santa Fe
- Tucumán
Other distribution
Common and abundant species in tropical and subtropical South America
BOLIVIA
COLOMBIA
BRAZIL
BOLIVIA
COLOMBIA
BRAZIL
- Gryllus obliquus Thunberg 1824
- Acridium consors Stål 1860
- Jodacris nebulosa Bruner 1900
- Omalotettix nebulosa (Bruner 1900)
- Catantops angustulus Bolívar 1902
Common and abundant species in tropical and subtropical South America.
Apparently polyphagous. Unspecified wild and cultivated plants.
- THUNBERG. 1824. Grylli monographia, illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg 3:390-430, pl. 14.:414.
- STÅL. 1861 [1860]. Orthoptera species nova descripsit. Pp. 299-350, pl. 5, in Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under behalf af C. A. Virgin aren 1851-1853. vol 2, Zoologi, part 1, insecta.:327.
- STÅL. 1873b. Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptéres décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm, part 1, 154 pp.
- GIGLIO-TOS. 1894. Viaggio dell dott. Alfredo Borelli nella Repubblica Argentina e nel Paraguay. Vi, Ortotteri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Universita di Torino 9(184):1-46, 1 pl.
- GIGLIO-TOS. 1897. Viaggio del Dott. A. Borelli nel Chaco Boliviano e nella Republica Argentina. X, Ortotteri. Bollettino del Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Universita di Torino 12(302):1-47.
- BRUNER. 1900. Brief account of the genera and species of Locusts or Gasshoppers of Argentina, together with descriptions of new forms. The second report of the Merchant's Locust investigation Commission of Buenos Aires. Lincoln, Nebraska, 80 pp:67.
- BRUNER. 1906. Synoptic list of Paraguayan Acrididae or Locusts, with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 30(1461):613-694, pl. 36-38
- REHN. 1913b. A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Argentina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 67:270-292
- LIEBERMANN. 1928. Preliminares para el estudio de los acridoideos argentinos. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 104:137-158.
- LIEBERMANN. 1939a. Catálogo sistemático y biográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la sociedad Entomológica Argentina 10:125-230
- LIEBERMANN. 1948a. Los acridios de Santa Fe. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 14:56-114
- HAYWARD. 1960. Insectos tucumanos perjudiciales. Revista Industrial y Agricola de Tucumán 42:3-144
- DESCAMPS. 1975. Etude du peuplement acridien de l'état de Veracruz (Mexique). Folia Entomologica Mexicana Nos. 31-32:3-97.
- ROBERTS & CARBONELL. 1981. A revision of the neotropical genus Abracris and related genera (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Ommatolampinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 133:1-14
- COPR. 1982. The locust and grasshopper agricultural manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
