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Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873

Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873: dorsal view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (16)

  • Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873: 97.

    Syntype; 808984c3-ea29-4a05-9031-5181eba12ac8; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); South Africa: Eastern Cape: [Kaffraria]

  • Tryxalis [sic] (Tryxalis) [sic] acuminata (Stål, 1873) in Bolívar, 1893: 162, 164.
  • Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873 in Picker, Griffiths & Weaving, 2005: 96.
  • Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873 in Kumar, Usmani & Chand, 2023: 146.

References (13)

  • Stål, C. (1873) Acridiodea. In Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm. Vol. 1, 154 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ
  • Bolívar, I. (1893) Tableau pour la determination du genre Tryxalis F. La Feuille des jeunes naturalistes, 23, 161–164. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/151652#page/169/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1902) List of a small collection of orthopterous insects formed by Sir Harry Johnston in British East Africa and Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with descriptions of five new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1902(1), 93–101. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98524#page/131/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1931) Acridiodea aus Kongo und anderen Teilen von Afrika. Arkiv för Zoologi, 22A(15), 64 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. & Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Preliminary diagnoses of new genera and new synonymy in Acrididae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 96, 231–237. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89813#page/259/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1954) Revision of species of the genus Acrida Linné (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1er d’Entomologie, 38, 107–160.
  • 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.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Steinmann, H. (1963) New species of the genus Acrida L. (Orthoptera) from Africa and Asia. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 9, 403–427.
  • 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.
  • Picker, M.D., Griffiths, C.L. & Weaving, A. (2005) Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, South Africa, 444 pp.
  • Kumar, H., Usmani, M.K. & Chand, D.S. (2023) First record of Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Acridinae) from India with description of its female genitalia. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 123, 145–149.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023