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Meruana usambarica (Karsch, 1896)

CollectionObject 1501677; 8d8a4394-6675-41a5-ae76-0113f62257fb, DORSA BA000106S01: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501677; 8d8a4394-6675-41a5-ae76-0113f62257fb, DORSA BA000106S01: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501677; 8d8a4394-6675-41a5-ae76-0113f62257fb, DORSA BA000106S01: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501677; 8d8a4394-6675-41a5-ae76-0113f62257fb, DORSA BA000106S01: male, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501677; 8d8a4394-6675-41a5-ae76-0113f62257fb, DORSA BA000106S01: male, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501677; 8d8a4394-6675-41a5-ae76-0113f62257fb, DORSA BA000106S01: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; DORSA BA000106S01; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Tanzania: E. Africa: Usambara, Bondei

Nomenclature (14)

  • Metapa usambarica Karsch, 1896: 290.

    Holotype; male; DORSA BA000106S01; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Tanzania: E. Africa: Usambara, Bondei

  • Meruana nyuki Sjöstedt, 1910: 182.

    Syntype; 37f622d2-ecf9-4a6e-876e-55458e1b50fc; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); United Republic of Tanzania: Arusha: Meru Plains

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  • Meruana usambarica (Karsch, 1896) in Hemp, 2009: 196.
  • Meruana usambarica (Karsch, 1896) in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 35.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Baccetti, B. (1997) Notulae orthopterologicae. 52. La collezione di ortotteri acridomorfi dell'Africa orientale conservata nel nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale G. Doria di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 91, 227–292. [1996]
  • 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.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Synonymic and systematic notes on African Acridoidea (Orthotpera). Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 1, 239–244.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1896) Neue Orthopteren aus dem tropischen Afrika. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 57, 242–359. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36013#page/250/mode/1up
  • La Baume, W. (1911) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der aethiopischen Orthopteren. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 72, 308–326. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36024#page/318/mode/1up
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2017) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 pp.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up
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