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Thoracistus viridifer (Walker, 1869)

Two-colored Seedpod Shieldback

CollectionObject 1517111; 01a0195d-96a9-4055-ae24-6a9470698e26: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517111; 01a0195d-96a9-4055-ae24-6a9470698e26: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517111; 01a0195d-96a9-4055-ae24-6a9470698e26: male head and pronotum, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Lectotype; male; 01a0195d-96a9-4055-ae24-6a9470698e26; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal: Durban, Port Natal

Nomenclature (11)

  • Thyreonotus viridifer Walker, 1869: 248.
  • Thorancistus [sic] viridifer (Walker, 1869) in Kirby, 1906: 182.
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  • Thoracistus viridifer (Walker, 1869) in Rentz, 1988: 270.
  • Thoracistus viridifer (Walker, 1869) in Naskrecki, 2011: 117.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • 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
  • Naskrecki, P. (2011) In Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine. University of Chicago Press. 384 pp.
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  • Péringuey, L. (1916) Descriptions of new or little-known Orthoptera in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum, 15(6), 401–452, pl. 42. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1552258
  • 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.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1924) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum, 3. Some less known or new genera and species of subfamilies Tettigoniidae and Decticinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 71(3-4), 492–537.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1928) Notes on the types of Othoptera described by Dr. L. Peringuey. Annals of the South African Museum, 25(2), 341–357. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126046#page/421/mode/1up
  • 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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Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Montane grassland, woodland and forest, as well as coastal forest mosaics. Particularly low understory vegetation in coastal forests and shady, humid vegetation along rock cliffs.

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