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Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869

Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869: Fig. 134 (after De Jong, C. blötei). female right tegmen (33-43 mm). (Otu).
Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869: Fig. 134 (after De Jong, C. blötei). female right tegmen (33-43 mm). (Otu).
Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869: Fig. 135 (same as Fig. 131 in Beier 1954). ovipositor (11-14 mm). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: female, latral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: female pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: female pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: female subgenital plate (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500334; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522279; 06bc0999-8c57-47ed-95ac-6d613e6c0cd0: male, lateral view (syntype of Cymatomera hyperborea). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1522279; 06bc0999-8c57-47ed-95ac-6d613e6c0cd0: stridulatory apparatus (syntype of Cymatomera hyperborea). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (21)

  • Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869: 214.

    Holotype; female; b407157b-5026-41e7-a0c8-866712896fcb; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Endara Mts

  • Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869 in Gerstaecker, 1873: 29.
  • Cymatomera hyperborea Rehn, 1901 (subjective synonym of Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869) in Beier, 1963: 61.
  • Cymatomera paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1869 in Hemp, 2021: 391.

References (13)

  • Gerstaecker, A. (1869) Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. No. II. Orthoptera et Neuroptera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 35(1), 201–223. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31346#page/209/mode/1up
  • Gerstaecker, A. (1873) Die Gliedertier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. C.F. Winter'sche, Leipzig & Heidelberg, 452 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40556#page/13/mode/1up
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1901) The Acrididae, Tettigonidae and Gryllidae collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Northeast Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 53, 370–382. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38485
  • 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
  • Beier, M. (1954) Revision der Pseudophyllinen. Instituto Español de Entomología, Madrid, 479 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1955) E. African Blattodea, Phasmatodea and Orthoptera. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Ostafrika-Expedition 1951/52, Gruppe Lindner, Stuttgart, Nr. 5. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 5, 472–485. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/267
  • Beier, M. (1957) Pseudophyllinae aus dem Belgischen Congo (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 55, 49–68.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Hemp, C. (2021) A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya. Senckenberg, 451 pp.

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