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Acanthacris deckeni (Gerstaecker, 1869)

CollectionObject 1501535; df297a6e-52bb-4b93-aee8-9a80aa10b31e, DORSA BA000121S01: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501535; df297a6e-52bb-4b93-aee8-9a80aa10b31e, DORSA BA000121S01: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501535; df297a6e-52bb-4b93-aee8-9a80aa10b31e, DORSA BA000121S01: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501535; df297a6e-52bb-4b93-aee8-9a80aa10b31e, DORSA BA000121S01: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501535; df297a6e-52bb-4b93-aee8-9a80aa10b31e, DORSA BA000121S01: female, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501535; df297a6e-52bb-4b93-aee8-9a80aa10b31e, DORSA BA000121S01: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
FieldOccurrence 126; b6324ede-d69d-4b45-93c5-a00938a44aa3; United Republic of Tanzania: Tanga Kilulu Hill coastal forest remain Mkinga District, 2024/01/15: male. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 126; b6324ede-d69d-4b45-93c5-a00938a44aa3; United Republic of Tanzania: Tanga Kilulu Hill coastal forest remain Mkinga District, 2024/01/15: male, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 126; b6324ede-d69d-4b45-93c5-a00938a44aa3; United Republic of Tanzania: Tanga Kilulu Hill coastal forest remain Mkinga District, 2024/01/15: male, dorsal view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 126; b6324ede-d69d-4b45-93c5-a00938a44aa3; United Republic of Tanzania: Tanga Kilulu Hill coastal forest remain Mkinga District, 2024/01/15: male, apex detail. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 133; 842ae0a7-e065-4e14-869e-d9a229659eb3; W Usambara Mbale Escarpment, 2018/06/11: male, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (12)

  • Acridium deckeni Gerstaecker, 1869: 219.

    Holotype; female; DORSA BA000121S01; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Kenya: Mombasa

  • Acridium deckeni Gerstaecker, 1869 in Gerstaecker, 1873: 43.
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  • Acanthacris deckeni (Gerstaecker, 1869) in Hemp, 2009: 201.
  • Acanthacris deckeni (Gerstaecker, 1869) in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 40.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Bruner, L. (1910) Acridoidea from Madagascar, Comoro Islands and Eastern Africa. Voeltzkow Reise, 2, 623–644. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41901484#page/481/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
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  • Gerstaecker, A. (1869) Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. No. II. Orthoptera et Neuroptera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 35(1), 201–223. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31346#page/209/mode/1up
  • Gerstaecker, A. (1873) Die Gliedertier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. C.F. Winter'sche, Leipzig & Heidelberg, 452 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40556#page/13/mode/1up
  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.
  • Hemp, C. (2009) Annotated list of Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 18(2), 183–214. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.018.0207
  • 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1950) Orthoptera from the hills of south-east Kenya. Journal of East Africa Natural History, 19, 192–221.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1955) E. African Blattodea, Phasmatodea and Orthoptera. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Ostafrika-Expedition 1951/52, Gruppe Lindner, Stuttgart, Nr. 5. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 5, 472–485. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/267
  • Mungai, M.N. (1987) The African grasshopper genus Acanthacris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae). Journal of Natural History, 21(4)(4), 807–823.
  • Paul, J. (1997) One and a half years of Kenyan Orthoptera: 2. Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae and spur-throated Acrididae. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 109, 193–198. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30062433#page/211/mode/1up

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