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Paracilacris (Paracilacris) lateralis Chopard, 1955

Drakensberg Grass False Shieldback
CollectionObject 1536475; 4a91b0d7-54f1-43a2-886b-6f2662c03d75: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536475; 4a91b0d7-54f1-43a2-886b-6f2662c03d75: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536475; 4a91b0d7-54f1-43a2-886b-6f2662c03d75: male head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1567550; abcc2d97-4ee9-4363-9b3e-718dde247c36: female, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1567550; abcc2d97-4ee9-4363-9b3e-718dde247c36: female pronotum, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (5)

  • Paracilacris lateralis Chopard, 1955: 27.

    Holotype; male; 4a91b0d7-54f1-43a2-886b-6f2662c03d75; deposited at: Lund University (MZLU); South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal: Natal National Park, Tugela Valley

  • Paracilacris lateralis Chopard, 1955 in Beier, 1966: 258.
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  • Paracilacris lateralis Chopard, 1955 in Naskrecki, Bazelet & Spearman, 2008: 27.
  • Paracilacris (Paracilacris) lateralis Chopard, 1955 in Gorochov, 2017: 51.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Beier, M. (1966) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Meconematinae, Mecopodinae, Phyllophorinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 9, 247–342 pp.
  • Chopard, L. (1955) Orthoptera Ensifera. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 2, 266–300.
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  • Gorochov, A.V. (2017) New taxa of the subfamily Meconematinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Africa and adjacent islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 321(1), 32–64. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_321_1/TZ_321_1_Gorochov.pdf
  • Naskrecki, P. (1996) Systematics of the southern African Meconematinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Journal of African Zoology, 110(3), 159–193.
  • Naskrecki, P., Bazelet, C.S. & Spearman, L.A. (2008) New species of flightless katydids from South Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae). Zootaxa, 1933, 19–32.

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