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Hemiacris fervens Walker, 1870

Hemiacris fervens Walker, 1870: lateral view. (Otu).
Hemiacris fervens Walker, 1870: lateral view. (Otu).
Hemiacris fervens Walker, 1870: dorsal view. (Otu).
FieldOccurrence 352; c8191d10-3519-46e0-91dc-7c86c5e4d6b0; Tanzania Lake Chala area, eastern slopes Mount Kilimanjaro, 2014/02/??: female, lateral view. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 352; c8191d10-3519-46e0-91dc-7c86c5e4d6b0; Tanzania Lake Chala area, eastern slopes Mount Kilimanjaro, 2014/02/??: female. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 357; cc7b9d29-015d-4953-8e5c-b197dfa9c16d; Tanzania Lake Chala area, eastern slopes Mount Kilimanjaro, 2016/08/17: nymph. (FieldOccurrence).

Nomenclature (39)

  • Hemiacris fervens Walker, 1870: 790.

    Holotype; male; 7fe818bd-cca1-43b2-99e9-843285aa3e4e; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); KwaZulu-Natal

  • Acrotylus femoralis Kirby, 1902: 233.
  • Hemiacris fervens Walker, 1870 in Mariño-Pérez & Foquet, 2016: 24.
  • Hemiacris fervens Walker, 1870 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 21.

References (22)

  • Walker, F. (1870) 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
  • Kirby, W.F. (1902) Report on a collection of African Locustidae formed by Mr. W. L. Distant, chiefly from the Transvaal. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1902, 57–114, 231–241. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48243#page/95/mode/1up
  • Schulthess, A.von (1909) Neue Orthoptera aus Transvaal. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 12(1), 8–13.
  • 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
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum 4. Identification of the types of Acrididae preserved in the Museum. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 72(3-4), 265–301. [1924]
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1943) Notes on the Old World genera of the group Euthymiae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10, 384–389.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1944) A review of the Old World Euthymiae (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 96, 1–135. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=axt087cw1R0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of Angola and northern Rhodesia, collected by Dr. Malcolm Burr in 1927-1928. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 21, 9–217.
  • 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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1961) A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 10(9), 351–419. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2242565
  • 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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Pinhey, E. (1965) Check list of the short-horned grasshoppers of Syringa Farm, Turk Mine, southern Rhodesia. Arnoldia, 2(1), 1–16.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 1. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 10–305.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology. Cambridge University Press, London, Vol. 1, 481 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.
  • 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
  • Mariño-Pérez, R. & Foquet, B. (2016) Collecting in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Metaleptea, 36(3), 22–25. Available at http://140.247.96.247/orthsoc/pdf/met_36_3.pdf
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2017) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 pp.

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