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Oxytruxalis ensis (Burr, 1899)

Type specimen

Syntype; female; b515328b-5315-4b3b-a5fb-4dab96a24b66; deposited at: World Museum Liverpool (WML); Yemen: Hadramawt: Socotra, Moukaradia Pass, south-eastern slope of Rooget Hill

Nomenclature (8)

  • Truxalis ensis Burr, 1899: 43.

    Syntype; female; b515328b-5315-4b3b-a5fb-4dab96a24b66; deposited at: World Museum Liverpool (WML); Yemen: Hadramawt: Socotra, Moukaradia Pass, south-eastern slope of Rooget Hill. Syntype; female; 3965ec0b-99b2-4173-8ffb-7750749615b1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Yemen: Hadramawt: Socotra, Jena-agahan

  • Acrida ensis (Burr, 1899) in Burr, 1902: 161.
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  • Oxytruxalis ensis (Burr, 1899) in Johnston, 1968: 363.
  • Oxytruxalis ensis (Burr, 1899) in Felix, Bouwman, Odé, Ketelaar, Pham & Bailey, 2025: 41.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Burr, M. (1899) Expedition to Socotra viii. Descriptions of two new genera and six new species of Orthoptera. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 2(2), 42–45. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45992#page/234/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
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  • Burr, M. (1903) Earwigs, crickets and grasshoppers. In Natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums (Special Bulletin). 409–427 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1950) Revision of the group Truxales (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, Tomo extraord., 119–248. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153460
  • Felix, R., Bouwman, J., Odé, B., Ketelaar, R., Pham, D.M. & Bailey, J. (2025) The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae). Contributions to Entomology, 75(1), 21–166. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Uvarov, B.P. & Popov, G.B. (1957) The saltatorial Orthoptera of Socotra. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 43, 359–389.
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in apposition
Etymology:

Latin for sword, possibly relating to very slender and elongated appearance.

Oxytruxalis ensis (Burr, 1899)

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