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Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956

Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: male lateral view. (Otu).
Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: male lateral view. (Otu).
Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: Fig. 40. male habitus. (Otu).
Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: Fig. 41. male, face. (Otu).
Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: Fig. 42. male, head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: Fig.43. male abdomen tip, dorsal view. (Otu).
Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: Fig. 44. male abdomen tip, lateral view. (Otu).
Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: Fig. 45. epiphallus. (Otu).

Nomenclature (5)

  • Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956: 121-272.

    Holotype; female; ec44cced-7ad1-4e68-a93a-7deeeab0d66b; deposited at: Lund University (MZLU); South Africa: Western Cape: Cape Agulhas

  • Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956 in Brown, 1959: 296.
  • Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956 in Johnston, 1968: 228.
  • Frontifissia laevata Dirsh, 1956 in Pronk, Pryke, Samways & Bazelet, 2017: 101, 104.

References (5)

  • 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.
  • Brown, H.D. (1959) New and interesting grasshoppers (Acridoidea) from South Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 22, 283–297. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/22/2/AJA00128789_3507
  • Brown, H.D. (1960) New grasshoppers (Acridoidea) from the Great Kattoo and South Eastern Cape Province. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 23(1), 126–143. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/23/1/AJA00128789_2815
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Pronk, B.M., Pryke, J.S., Samways, M.J. & Bazelet, C.S. (2017) Range restricted grasshoppers better conserved in a terrestrial zone than in a riparian zone. Journal of Insect Conservation, 21(1), 97–109. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-017-9957-3

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