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Meruana sakuensis (Kevan, 1966)

Nomenclature (3)

  • Leptacris sakuensis Kevan, 1966: 208.

    Holotype; male; d7ba6337-11cb-46dc-b495-6859c15b2ae5; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Chopa Gof, Marsabit

  • Meruana sakuensis (Kevan, 1966) in Grunshaw, 1996: 151.
  • Meruana sakuensis (Kevan, 1966) in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 35.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Grunshaw, J.P. (1996) A taxonomic revision of the genus Leptacris Walker 1870 and allied genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Hemiacridinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 5, 131–157.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1966) Orthoptera_Caelifera from northern Kenya and Jubaland. III. Acrididae, s. str., Hemiacridinae: with notes on previous contributions on the Orthopteroids of the region. Opuscula Entomologica. Edidit Societas Entomologica Lundensis, 31, 205–220.
  • 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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