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species

Arytropteris pondo Rentz, 1988

Pondo Flat-necked Shieldback

labels (holotype). Depicts CollectionObject 1526959; aa1d8ac1-720f-404c-99c9-b22f62d0cea4, a CollectionObject.
labels (holotype). Depicts CollectionObject 1526959; aa1d8ac1-720f-404c-99c9-b22f62d0cea4, a CollectionObject.
male, lateral view (paratype). Depicts CollectionObject 1567545; c4d120ba-eadd-48c8-8906-8dc63b0f4234, a CollectionObject.
male head and pronotum, dorsal view (paratype). Depicts CollectionObject 1567545; c4d120ba-eadd-48c8-8906-8dc63b0f4234, a CollectionObject.
stridulatory file on left tegmen (paratype). Depicts CollectionObject 1567545; c4d120ba-eadd-48c8-8906-8dc63b0f4234, a CollectionObject.
left tegmen, dorsal view (paratype). Depicts CollectionObject 1567545; c4d120ba-eadd-48c8-8906-8dc63b0f4234, a CollectionObject.

Nomenclature (1)

  • Arytropteris pondo Rentz, 1988: 238.

    Holotype; male; aa1d8ac1-720f-404c-99c9-b22f62d0cea4; deposited at: Transvaal Museum (TMSA); South Africa: Eastern Cape: Port St. John, Mt. Thesiger

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1988) The shield-backed katydids of Southern Africa: their taxonomy, ecology and relationships to the faunas of Australia and S. America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 2(2), 223–335.

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