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Zumala robusta Walker, 1869

Zumala robusta Walker, 1869: identified by D.P. Wijesinghe. female, frontal view (Sri Lanka, on giant fern Angiopteris evecta). (Otu).
Zumala robusta Walker, 1869: identified by D.P. Wijesinghe. female, frontal view (Sri Lanka, on giant fern Angiopteris evecta). (Otu).
Zumala robusta Walker, 1869: identified by D.P. Wijesinghe. female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Zumala robusta Walker, 1869: identified by D.P. Wijesinghe. female, lateral view. (Otu).
Zumala robusta Walker, 1869: Fig. 77. ovipositor (19.5-21 mm). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1517056; 5e4d2ab3-1b7b-4a33-bb18-f59d0347ca31: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517056; 5e4d2ab3-1b7b-4a33-bb18-f59d0347ca31: female ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517056; 5e4d2ab3-1b7b-4a33-bb18-f59d0347ca31: female head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Zumala robusta Walker, 1869: 413.

    Holotype; female; 5e4d2ab3-1b7b-4a33-bb18-f59d0347ca31; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Sri Lanka

  • Zumala robusta Walker, 1869 in Kirby, 1906: 298.
  • Zumala robusta Walker, 1869 in Beier, 1962: 115.
  • Zumala robusta Walker, 1869 in Beier, 1963: 39.

References (7)

  • Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 2, 225–423 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci02britrich
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Some Orthoptera of the families Mantidae, Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 14(1), 85–114.
  • Henry, G.M.R. (1939) The genus Zumala Walker (Insecta, Orthoptera) with description of a new species. Ceylon Journal of Science Biological Science), 21, 219–228.
  • Beier, M. (1954) Revision der Pseudophyllinen. Instituto Español de Entomología, Madrid, 479 pp.
  • Beier, M. (1962) Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae I). Das Tierreich, 73, 1–468.
  • Beier, M. (1963) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Pseudophyllinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 5, 1–246 pp.

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