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Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937

Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937: female, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937: 147.

    Holotype; female; ee890e16-2141-4af2-a4a1-8d8a21064025; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: Western Cape: Cape Peninsula

  • Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937 in Dirsh, 1956
  • Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937 in Johnston, 1968: 228.
  • Frontifissia elegans Key, 1937 in Naskrecki, 2011: 119.

References (7)

  • Key, K.H.L. (1937) New Acrididae from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 135–167, 5 pls. 2 figs.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
  • 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.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) 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.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2011) Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine. University of Chicago Press, 384 pp.

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