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species

Pnorisa orientalis Kevan, 1956

Type specimen

Holotype; female; af0bee94-ef08-4423-a2a5-f5e5fa041010; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: near Kibwezi

Nomenclature (4)

  • Pnorisa orientalis Kevan, 1956: 20.

    Holotype; female; af0bee94-ef08-4423-a2a5-f5e5fa041010; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: near Kibwezi

  • Pnorisa orientalis Kevan, 1956 in Dirsh, 1965: 539.
  • Pnorisa orientalis Kevan, 1956 in Baccetti & Hollis, 1966: 283.
  • Pnorisa orientalis Kevan, 1956 in Johnston, 1968: 384.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Baccetti, B. & Hollis, D. (1966) Orthoptera–Acridoidea (Notulae orthopterologicae, XXIII). Ricerche sulla fauna della Somalia promosse dall’Istituto di Zoologia e dal Museo Zoologico dell’Universita di Firenze: XXVI. Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento, 74, 273–284. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03749444.1966.10736745
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1956) New East African Acrididae (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9, 20–35.
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectiveorientalis, orientalis, orientale
Etymology:

Reference to distribution in East Africa.

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