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Acorypha ferrifer (Walker, 1870)

Acorypha ferrifer (Walker, 1870): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Acorypha ferrifer (Walker, 1870): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Acorypha ferrifer (Walker, 1870): female, lateral view. (Otu).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; e1224b49-8400-4a11-8673-a128e6e0b4f1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa

Nomenclature (17)

  • Caloptenus [sic] ferrifer Walker, 1870: 698.

    Holotype; male; e1224b49-8400-4a11-8673-a128e6e0b4f1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa

  • Caloptenopsis ferrifer (Walker, 1870) in Uvarov, 1922: 130.
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  • Caloptenopsis burri Uvarov, 1950 in Otte, 1995: 144.
  • Acorypha ferrifer (Walker, 1870) in Otte, 1995: 154.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Chapman, R.F. (1962) The ecology and distribution of grasshoppers in Ghana. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 139, 1–66.
  • 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) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Jago, N.D. (1964) Aspects of the ecology and distribution of grasshoppers in Ghana as a contribution to the zoogeography of West Africa. Journal of the West Africa Science Association, 8(2), 190–204.
  • Jago, N.D. (1967) A key, check list and synonymy to the species formerly included in the genera Caloptenopsis I. Bolivar, 1889, and Acorypha Krauss, 1877 (Orth. Calliptaminae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 42(3-4), 397–462. [1966] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/162710
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1922) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. 2. The group of Calliptamini. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 48, 117–177. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51053#page/193/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1950) The genus Caloptenopsis I. Bolivar and its allies (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, tomo extraordinario, 385–413. [1951] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/154299
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald (1964) An ecological survey of grasshoppers of the subfamily Catantopinae in Eastern Central Africa. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 7(1), 333–378.
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
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