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Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896

Zanzibar Giant Forest Grasshopper
Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896: 2014. male (Tanzania, E Kilimanjaro, savanna). (Otu).
Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896: 2014. male (Tanzania, E Kilimanjaro, savanna). (Otu).
Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896: 2014. male (Tanzania, E Kilimanjaro). (Otu).
Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896: Fig. 36. female, dorsal view (body length 31 mm, pronotum 6.5 mm). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1501529; 583d6656-65fb-4b4a-a753-fb4cae5949d2: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501529; 583d6656-65fb-4b4a-a753-fb4cae5949d2: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501529; 583d6656-65fb-4b4a-a753-fb4cae5949d2: male, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501529; 583d6656-65fb-4b4a-a753-fb4cae5949d2: male, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501529; 583d6656-65fb-4b4a-a753-fb4cae5949d2: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502781; 3cf49b63-65cc-442d-bb34-a014f5adf62b: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502781; 3cf49b63-65cc-442d-bb34-a014f5adf62b: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502781; 3cf49b63-65cc-442d-bb34-a014f5adf62b: female, vantral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502781; 3cf49b63-65cc-442d-bb34-a014f5adf62b: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502781; 3cf49b63-65cc-442d-bb34-a014f5adf62b: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
FieldOccurrence 37; d082da41-f769-417f-bf31-620cc34df0f8; Tanzania savanna eastern Kilimanjaro, 2013/10/??: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 37; d082da41-f769-417f-bf31-620cc34df0f8; Tanzania savanna eastern Kilimanjaro, 2013/10/??: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 37; d082da41-f769-417f-bf31-620cc34df0f8; Tanzania savanna eastern Kilimanjaro, 2013/10/??: male, apex dorsal view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 37; d082da41-f769-417f-bf31-620cc34df0f8; Tanzania savanna eastern Kilimanjaro, 2013/10/??: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 37; d082da41-f769-417f-bf31-620cc34df0f8; Tanzania savanna eastern Kilimanjaro, 2013/10/??: male, apex lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896: 320.

    Syntype; male; 583d6656-65fb-4b4a-a753-fb4cae5949d2; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Zanzibar. Syntype; female; 3cf49b63-65cc-442d-bb34-a014f5adf62b; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Zanzibar

  • Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896 in Johnston, 1956: 298.
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  • Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896 in Otte, 1995: 206.
  • Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896 in Rowell & Hemp, 2018: 20.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1896) Neue Orthopteren aus dem tropischen Afrika. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 57, 242–359. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36013#page/250/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Popov, G.B. (1959) Revision of the genera Allaga Karsch and Sauracris Burr (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 111, 1–26.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2018) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 3. Acrididae: Catantopinae. 224 pp.

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