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Ophiotettix cheesmanae Tumbrinck & Skejo, 2017

Cheesman's Giraffehopper
CollectionObject 1581818; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581818; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581818; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581818; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581818; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91: female, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581818; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91: female, antenna (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1581818; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91: female, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (1)

  • Ophiotettix cheesmanae Tumbrinck & Skejo, 2017: 551.

    Holotype; female; 358478bd-b406-4638-9324-2a3ab7645a91; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Indonesia: Papua: Central Range, Mount Oud

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Tumbrinck, J. & Skejo, J. (2017) Taxonomic and biogeographic revision of the New Guinean genus Ophiotettix Walker, 1871 (Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae: Ophiotettigini trib. nov.), with the descriptions of 33 new species. In Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Entomological Society of Latvia, Ed. Dmitry Telnov. Vol. 3, 525–580 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Namend after the collector of the holotype, the British entomologist and traveller Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881–1969).

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