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Burttia sylvatica Dirsh, 1951

Uluguru Forest Grasshopper
FieldOccurrence 90; 06ab6bd2-73ec-49cf-ac90-99f1d4ea528a; Tanzania forest above Morningside Uluguru Mountains, 2008/11/10: female. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 90; 06ab6bd2-73ec-49cf-ac90-99f1d4ea528a; Tanzania forest above Morningside Uluguru Mountains, 2008/11/10: female. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 98; 49bb0dc8-3861-4635-815e-1d748b772390; Tanzania Uluguru forest above Morningside, 2016/02/??: male and female maiting. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 98; 49bb0dc8-3861-4635-815e-1d748b772390; Tanzania Uluguru forest above Morningside, 2016/02/??: (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Burttia sylvatica Dirsh, 1951: 73.

    Holotype; male; 75363b55-7ca5-43c7-86b6-900a06022002; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); United Republic of Tanzania: Morogoro: Morogoro

  • Burttia sylvatica Dirsh, 1951 in Dirsh, 1956: 278.
  • ... Show all ... (4)
  • Burttia sylvatica Dirsh, 1951 in Rowell & Hemp, 2018: 66.
  • Burttia sylvatica Dirsh, 1951 in Hemp & Rowell, 2022: 1, 3.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1951) Some new and little-known African Acrididae (Orthotpera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 20, 73–79.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2022) A new species of Burttia Dirsh (Caelifera, Acridoidea, Acrididae, Catantopinae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 31(1), 1–7. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/70565/
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) 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.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2018) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 3. Acrididae: Catantopinae. 224 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to rain forest habitat in Morogoro where it was found.

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