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Anacridium moestum (Serville, 1838)

Tree Locust
Anacridium moestum (Serville, 1838): female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Anacridium moestum (Serville, 1838): female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Anacridium moestum (Serville, 1838): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Anacridium moestum (Serville, 1838): lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (18)

  • Acridium moestum Serville, 1838: 654.

    Syntype; male; 2aa5e5dc-56c4-41b5-9cc4-56a0357f1809; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Zimbabwe: Matabeleland. Syntype; female; ccf1a656-2ce8-4460-b35c-9ec80aac1df4; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Zimbabwe: Matabeleland

  • Acridium moestum Serville, 1838 in Charpentier, 1845: Tab. 60.
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  • Anacridium moestum (Serville, 1838) in Johnsen, 1991: 159.
  • Anacridium moestum (Serville, 1838) in Picker, Griffiths & Weaving, 2005: 102.

Nomenclature references (18)

  • Burr, M. (1904) Orthoptera Fam. Eumastacidae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. 1–23, pl 1. [1903] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105399#page/13/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. & Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Tree locusts of the genus Anacridium (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 29, 7–69. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/153374
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Picker, M., Griffiths, C. & Weaving, A. (2005) In Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, South Africa. 444 pp.
  • Potter, E. (1940) A gynandromorph specimen of Anacridium moestum (Serv.), Orthoptera, Acrididae. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (A), 15, 41–46.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1942) New South African bird-locust of the genus Anacridium (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Notulae Naturae, 110. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=zst-V4kSK-AC
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1944) South African bird-locust records and notes (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, group Cyrtacanthacres). Notulae Naturae, 137, 11 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=sixg8TvLIygC
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1918) Neue Orthopteren aus Afrika und Madagaskar. Arkiv för Zoologi, 12(1), 1–18. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30230#page/9/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1923) A revision of the Old World Cyrtacanthacrini (Orthoptera, Acrididae). II. Genera Phyxacra to Willemsea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 11, 473–490. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107006#page/501/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1929) Contributions to a knowledge of the Fauna of South West Africa. VIII. Records and descriptions of Acrididae from S.W. Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 29, 41–75. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127106#page/65/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) In Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology. Cambridge University Press, London. Vol. 1, 481 pp.
  • von Charpentier, T. (1845) In Orthoptera descripta et depicta [1841-1845]. L. Woss, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. 120 pp. (non numerate). Available at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuc.2859184

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