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Peakesia nana Sjöstedt, 1921

Deceptive Peakesia

Type specimen

Holotype; female; ebb70b2f-52a7-4ee7-ac29-94d4308fb6b4; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: Northern Territory: Alexandria

Nomenclature (5)

  • Peakesia nana Sjöstedt, 1921: 177.

    Holotype; female; ebb70b2f-52a7-4ee7-ac29-94d4308fb6b4; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: Northern Territory: Alexandria

  • Peakesia puella Sjöstedt, 1921: 176.

    Holotype; female; bef7029d-b5c9-436c-b947-4461d6ef3fac; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: Queensland: Queensland, Inkerman, Townsville

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  • Peakesia puella Sjöstedt, 1921 (subjective synonym of Peakesia nana Sjöstedt, 1921) in Key, 1986: 23.
  • Peakesia nana Sjöstedt, 1921 in Rentz, Lewis, Su & Upton, 2003: 126.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Key, K.H.L. (1986) A provisional synonomic list of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 24, 1–47.
  • Rentz, D.C.F., Lewis, R.C., Su, Y.N. & Upton, M.S. (2003) In A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts. Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. v-ix, 1–419.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1921) Acridiodea Australica. Monographie der bisher von Australien bekannten Heuschrecken mit kurzen Fühlern. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 62(3), 1–318. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60366953#page/1/mode/1up
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Descendants and synonyms

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in apposition
Etymology:

Reference to small size.

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