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Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781)

Giant Green Slantface

Nomenclature (29)

  • Truxalis conicus Fabricius, 1781: 352. (valid)

    Holotype; female; 5a2f3346-77f0-40af-b5d8-7dd9429dd24f; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia

  • Truxalis conicus Fabricius, 1781 in Fabricius, 1787: 231.
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  • Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781) in Rentz, Lewis, Su & Upton, 2003: 348, 392.
  • Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781) in Tan, Salvador, Bahoy, Sabang, Grumo, Gono, Rivera, Daguplo, Mondejar, Nuñeza, Patano, Baroga-Barbecho & Yap, 2025: 7.

Nomenclature references (20)

  • Blanchard, C.É. (1853) Insectes: Ordre des Orthoptères. In Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l' Océanie sur les Corvettes l' Astrolabe et la Zélée exècuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840. Gide et Cie., Paris. pp. Zoologie 4, Part 1, 349–376, pl. 1–3. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=EWABAAAAQAAJ
  • 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
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  • Bruner, L. (1915) Preliminary catalogue of the Orthopteroid insects of the Philippine Islands. University Studies, 15(2), 195–281 [1–87]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94891#page/233/mode/1up
  • Burr, M. (1902) A monograph of the genus Acrida Stal (=Truxalis Fabr.) with notes of some allied genera, and descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 149–187. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48243
  • 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.
  • Fabricius, J.C. (1781) Species Insectorum. Vol. 1, 340–371 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44032
  • Fabricius, J.C. (1787) In Mantissa insectorvm sistens eorvm species nvper detectas adiectis characteribvs genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibvs, observationibvs. Tom. I. Hafniae (C.G. Proft), Copenhagen. 348 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44030#page/7/mode/1up
  • Gmelin, J.F. (1790) In Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae. Vol. 1, Issue 4, 1517–2224 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10288#page/1/mode/1up
  • Key, K.H.L. (1959) The ecology and biogeography of Australian grasshoppers and locusts. Biogeography & Ecology Australia, 192–210.
  • Key, K.H.L. (1986) A provisional synonomic list of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 24, 1–47.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) In Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae (10th ed.). Holmiae. Vol. 1, 824 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/3/mode/1up
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1996) Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia. CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1–284.
  • Rentz, D.C.F., Lewis, R.C., Su, Y.N. & Upton, M.S. (2003) In A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts. Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. v-ix, 1–419.
  • 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
  • Tan, M.K., Salvador, J.A.G., Bahoy, D.C.M., Sabang, A.M.M., Grumo, K.C., Gono, A.A., Rivera, R.R., Daguplo, J., Mondejar, E.P., Nuñeza, O.M., Patano, R.R., Jr., Baroga-Barbecho, J.B. & Yap, S.A. (2025) 110 years after Bruner (1915): An updated checklist of Orthoptera of the Philippines. Zootaxa, 5643(1), 1–65. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5643.1.1
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1827) Truxalis, insecti genus illustratum. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 9, 76–88. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19814#page/92/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum 4. Identification of the types of Acrididae preserved in the Museum. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 72(3-4), 265–301. [1924]
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich

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