Orthoptera Species File
species

Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869)

Blue-legged Sylvan Katydid
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): male (South Africa, Songimvelo Game Res.). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): male (South Africa, Songimvelo Game Res.). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): male (South Africa, Songimvelo Game Res.). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): female nymph (Kilimanjaro, Mahoma). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): female, dorsal view (Kilimanjaro, plantation). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): female, lateral view (Kilimanjaro, plantation). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): female, frontal view (Kilimanjaro, Kidia). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): male, lateral view (Kilimanjaro, Kidia). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): male, dorsal view (Kilimanjaro, Kidia). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): male, anterior portion of body, dorsal view (Kilimanjaro, Kidia). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): Fig. 4. female (tegmina 52-70.5 mm). (Otu).
Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869): Fig. 4. male subgenital plate (styli 2 mm). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1517082; e6cd0486-9180-4a54-b212-0c8f45ad3e82: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517082; e6cd0486-9180-4a54-b212-0c8f45ad3e82: female ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517082; e6cd0486-9180-4a54-b212-0c8f45ad3e82: female left tegmen (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: female, lateral view (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: female pronotum, lateral view (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: female, dorsal view (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: female pronotum, dorsal view (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: female face (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: female subgenital plate (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: female ovipositor (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534495; 9b1b0528-4e5a-4385-9eea-a98325dda28b: labels (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534704; 8b31a34b-4a98-4718-8c41-0cedc9f3cd92: female, lateral view (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534704; 8b31a34b-4a98-4718-8c41-0cedc9f3cd92: female pronotum, lateral view (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534704; 8b31a34b-4a98-4718-8c41-0cedc9f3cd92: female, dorsal view (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534704; 8b31a34b-4a98-4718-8c41-0cedc9f3cd92: female ovipositor (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534704; 8b31a34b-4a98-4718-8c41-0cedc9f3cd92: female face (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534704; 8b31a34b-4a98-4718-8c41-0cedc9f3cd92: female subgenital plate (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534704; 8b31a34b-4a98-4718-8c41-0cedc9f3cd92: labels (syntype of Mataeus orientalis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535119; d3e607ac-9209-4cd1-949b-322bae5f34c1: female, lateral view (lectotype of Mustius bocagei). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535119; d3e607ac-9209-4cd1-949b-322bae5f34c1: female pronotum, lateral view (lectotype of Mustius bocagei). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535119; d3e607ac-9209-4cd1-949b-322bae5f34c1: female pronotum dorsal (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535119; d3e607ac-9209-4cd1-949b-322bae5f34c1: female face (lectotype of Mustius bocagei). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535119; d3e607ac-9209-4cd1-949b-322bae5f34c1: female subgenital plate (lectotype of Mustius bocagei). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535119; d3e607ac-9209-4cd1-949b-322bae5f34c1: female sternum (lectotype of Mustius bocagei). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535119; d3e607ac-9209-4cd1-949b-322bae5f34c1: labels (lectotype of Mustius bocagei). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (37)

  • Pseudophyllus ophthalmicus Walker, 1869: 400. (valid)

    Holotype; female; e6cd0486-9180-4a54-b212-0c8f45ad3e82; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); KwaZulu-Natal

  • Mustius bocagei Bolívar, 1890: 221.
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  • Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869) in Hemp, 2021: 404.
  • Zabalius ophthalmicus (Walker, 1869) in Simeu-Noutchom, Kekeunou, Oumarou-Ngoute & Zang Affa'a, 2025: 566.

Nomenclature references (27)

  • Beier, M. (1954) Exploration du Parc National de l’Upemba, mission G.F. de Witte en collaboration avec W. Adam, A. Janssens, L. Van Meel et R. Verheyen (1946-1949), fasc. 20.
  • Beier, M. (1954) Revision der Pseudophyllinen. Instituto Español de Entomología, Madrid, 479 pp.
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  • Beier, M. (1957) Pseudophyllinae aus dem Belgischen Congo (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 55, 49–68.
  • 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.
  • Bolívar, I. (1890) Ortópteros de Africa del Museo de Lisboa. Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 2), 1(4), 211–232. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23044#page/225/mode/1up
  • Brunn, M. (1901) Ostafrikanische Orthopteren gesammelt von Herrn Dr. Fr. Stuhlmann, 1888 und 1889. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, 18, 213–283.
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1895) Monographie der Pseudophylliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 45, 1–282. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MON-E-ORTH_0007_0001-0282.pdf
  • Chopard, L. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1954) Orthoptera-Ensifera from Kenya and Jubaland. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 105, 315–353.
  • Chopard, L. (1935) Contribution à l'étude de la faune du Mozambique. Voyage de M.P. Lesne (1928-1929). Memórias e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra, 85, 43 pp.
  • de Jong, C. (1960) Orthopterological notes IV. Notes on Indomalayan and African Pterophyllinae (Tettigoniidae). Zoologische Verhandlingen, 45, 1–70. Available at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317667
  • Griffini, A. (1908) Phasgonuridae africane del R. Museo di Storia Naturale di Bruxelles. Hetrodidae, Mecopodidae, Pseudophyllidae. Mémoires de la Société entomologique de Belgique, 15, 35–64. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41740#page/49/mode/1up
  • Hemp, C. (2013) Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Zootaxa, 3613(4), 301–342.
  • Hemp, C. (2013) Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa. Zootaxa, 3737(4), 301–350.
  • Hemp, C. (2017) Annotated checklist of Orthoptera from Kazimzumbwi forest reserve, the description of new species from Tanzania, East Africa and biogeographic patterns of threatened species. Zootaxa, 4226(2), 151–193.
  • Hemp, C. (2021) In A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya. Senckenberg. 451 pp.
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1891) Orthopterologische Beiträge IV. Beiträge zur Systematik der Pseudophylliden Afrika's. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 36(1), 71–114, pls. 2–4. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101306
  • 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
  • Krauss, H.A. (1901) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Orthopteren Deutsch-Südwestafrikas. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 51, 281–293. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49946
  • Liana, A. (1999) The type material of Pseudophyllidae (Orthoptera) in the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, Warsaw. Bulletin of the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, 2, 45–62. Available at http://rcin.org.pl/Content/56970/WA058_76509_P255_Bull-2-5.pdf
  • Naskrecki, P. & Guta, R. (2019) Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) of Gorongosa National Park and Central Mozambique. Zootaxa, 4682(1), 1–119.
  • Paris, M. (1994) Catálogo de tipos de ortopteroides (Insecta) de Ignacio Bolivar, I: Blattaria, Mantodea, Phasmoptera y Orthoptera (Stenopelmatoidea, Rhaphidophoroidea, Tettigonioidea, Grylloidea, Tetrigoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 69, 143–264. [1993] Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/170427
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1914) Orthoptera I: Mantidae, Phasmidae, Acrididae, Tettigoniidae und Gryllidae aus dem Zentral-Afrikanischen Gebiet, Uganda und dem Ituri-Becken des Kongo. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Zentralafrika Expedition 1907-1908, 5, 1–223. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/966177#page/7/mode/1up
  • Schulthess, A.von (1898) Orthoptères du Pays des Somalis, recueillis par L. Robecchi-Brichetti en 1891 et par le Prince E. Ruspoli en 1892-93. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 39, 161–216. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33431#page/169/mode/1up
  • Simeu-Noutchom, A., Kekeunou, S., Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Zang Affa'a, G. (2025) Mpem and Djim National Park’s katydids (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae) in Cameroon: ecology, distribution and threats. Biodiversity Journal, 16(4), 557–570. https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2025.16.4.557.570
  • Vanschuytbroeck, P. (1972) Catalogue des Tettigoniidae conservés dans les collections entomologiques de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (2e Partie). Famille des Tettigoniidae : sous-famille des Pseudophyllinae. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 48(6), 1–16. Available at http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletins-de-linstitut-royal-des-sciences-naturelles-de-belgique-entomologie/48-1972/entomo48-art6.pdf
  • Walker, F. (1869) In 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

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