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Rowellacris transiens (Ramme, 1929)

Usambara Drumming Grasshopper
Rowellacris transiens (Ramme, 1929): (Otu).
Rowellacris transiens (Ramme, 1929): (Otu).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Ixalidium transiens Ramme, 1929: 308. (valid)

    Holotype; male; 4b819964-1531-4e46-aef5-41805fdd81ff; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); United Republic of Tanzania: Tanga: Usambara, Nguelo

  • Ixalidium transiens Ramme, 1929 in Johnston, 1956: 295.
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  • Ixalidium transiens Ramme, 1929 in Hochkirch, 2010: 148.
  • Rowellacris transiens (Ramme, 1929) in Hemp, Ritchie, Cigliano, Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz, Linde, Uluar, Oumarou-Ngoute & Song, 2025: 520.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 1. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 10–305.
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  • Hemp, C., Ritchie, J.M., Cigliano, M.M., Heller, K.-G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Linde, J.B., Uluar, O., Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Song, H. (2025) Out of sight, out of mind? Ixalidiidae, a new family of African forest grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) revealed by molecular phylogenetics and genital morphology. Zoosystema, 47(24), 489–553. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a24
  • Hochkirch, A. (1995) Habitatpräferenzen dreier Heuschreckenarten im submontanen Regenwald der Ost-Usambaraberge, NO-Tansania (Orthoptera; Acridoidea). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Angewandte Entomologie, 10, 297–300.
  • Hochkirch, A. (2010) Niche conservatism among allopatric species of the grasshopper genus Afrophlaeoba Jago, 1983 in the Eastern Arc Mountains (Tanzania). In Relict species - phylogeography and conservation biology. Eds. Habel & Assmann, Springer, Heidelberg. 145–158 pp.
  • Johnsen, P. & Forchhammer, P. (1975) Checklist of the Acridomorpha of Tanzania (Insecta: Orthoptera). Natura Jutlandica, 18, 26–52.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Ramme, W. (1929) Afrikanische Acrididae. Revisionen und Beschreibungen wenig bekannter und neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15, 247–492.

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