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Valanga Irregularis Branch1
''Valanga''Uvarov BP (1923) ''Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.'' 9 11: 143. is a genus of "bird grasshoppers" in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. Species are found from the Indian subcontinent through southeast Asia and the Korean peninsula to Australia and the Pacific islands. Species The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following ''Valanga'' species: *''Valanga cheesmanae'' Uvarov, 1932 *''Valanga chloropus'' Sjöstedt, 1932 *''Valanga coerulescens'' Willemse, 1953 *''Valanga conspersa'' Uvarov, 1923 *''Valanga excavata'' Stål, 1861 *''Valanga fakfakensis'' Sjöstedt, 1932 *''Valanga geniculata'' Stål, 1877 *''Valanga gilbertensis'' Willemse, 1970 *''Valanga gohieri'' Le Guillou, 1841 *''Valanga ilocano'' Rehn & Rehn, 1941 *''Valanga irregularis'' Walker, 1870 *''Valanga isolata'' Willemse, 1955 *''Valanga marquesana'' Uvarov, 1927 *''Valanga meleager'' Sjöstedt, 1921 *''Valanga modesta'' Sjöstedt, 1921 *''Valanga nigricornis'' (Burmeister, 1838) - type species (as ''Acridium nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Uvarov
Sir Boris Petrovitch Uvarov (3 November 1886 – 18 March 1970) was a Russian-British entomologist best known for his work on the biology and ecology of locusts. He has been called the father of acridology. Biography Boris Petrovitch Uvarov was born in Ural'sk, in the Russian Empire (now Oral, Kazakhstan), the youngest of three sons of Pyotr P. Uvarov, a state bank employee, and his wife, Aleksandra. His interest in natural history was aided in young life by his father's gift of six volumes of Brehm's ''Tierleben''. He went to a school in Uralsk from 1895 to 1902 where he was encouraged by S. M. Zhuravlev. He then studied briefly at the School of Mining at Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro) but transferred in 1906 to study biology in the Saint Petersburg State University, graduating in 1910. He was influenced by the teachings of Shimkevitch, Wagner, and Palladin but enjoyed most the meetings of the Russian Entomological Society where he was influenced by, among others, D. N. Borodi, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |