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Brachyacrida distanti Dirsh, 1952

Nomenclature (11)

  • Acrida turrita calaeata Saussure, 1892 in Distant, 1892: 256. (nomen nudum)
  • Brachyacrida distanti Dirsh, 1952: 138.

    Holotype; male; 1684f5e1-10c1-44fe-b5c3-7771c49b8797; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Leeuwfontein, Luckhoft

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  • Brachyacrida distanti Dirsh, 1952 in Johnsen, 1991: 186.
  • Acrida turrita calaeata Saussure, 1892 (unavailable or invalid, linked to Brachyacrida distanti Dirsh, 1952) in Hollier, 2012: 334.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1952) Two new genera of the subfamily Acridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 21, 135–139.
  • 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.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Distant, W.L. (1892) Naturalist in the Transvaal. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20046#page/11/mode/1up
  • Hollier, J.A. (2012) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, part 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(3), 303–339. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185629#page/47/mode/1up
  • Johnsen, P. (1980) New records of shorthorned grasshoppers from Botswana, with a description of Rhodesiana cuneicerca n. sp. (Insecta: Acridomorpha). Botswana Notes & Record, 12(1), 23–33. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/botnotes/12/1/AJA052550590_870
  • Johnsen, P. (1990) A new genus and three new species of Acridoidea with notes on some lesser known species from southern Africa (Orthoptera). Natura Jutlandica, 23(1), 1–22.
  • Johnsen, P. (1991) Acrididae: Catantopinae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Acridinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana, 2, 132–284.
  • 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.

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