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Scintharista forbesii (Burr, 1899)

Scintharista forbesii (Burr, 1899): female in habitat (Adho Dimello, Socotra, Yemen). (Otu).
Scintharista forbesii (Burr, 1899): female in habitat (Adho Dimello, Socotra, Yemen). (Otu).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Dissosteira forbesii Burr, 1899: 44.

    Syntype; male; b628ef7f-e61b-4724-8dad-5595ebf3479c; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Socotra. Syntype; female; 6d0a71fd-833a-4f6d-b23e-4c04e6c8871e; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Socotra

  • Dissosteira forbesii Burr, 1899 in Burr, 1903: 418.
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  • Scintharista forbesi [sic] (Burr, 1899) in Johnston, 1968: 337.
  • Scintharista forbesii (Burr, 1899) in Felix, Bouwman, Odé, Ketelaar, Pham & Bailey, 2025: 74.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Burr, M. (1899) Expedition to Socotra viii. Descriptions of two new genera and six new species of Orthoptera. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 2(2), 42–45. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45992#page/234/mode/1up
  • Burr, M. (1903) Earwigs, crickets and grasshoppers. In Natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums (Special Bulletin). 409–427 pp.
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  • Felix, R., Bouwman, J., Odé, B., Ketelaar, R., Pham, D.M. & Bailey, J. (2025) The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae). Contributions to Entomology, 75(1), 21–166. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Uvarov, B.P. & Popov, G.B. (1957) The saltatorial Orthoptera of Socotra. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 43, 359–389.

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