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Acrophymus veseyi Dirsh, 1963

Northern Zambian Agile Grasshopper

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 53af73ff-68aa-4c1c-951e-71b120464a10; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); [Zamibia [N. Rhodesia]: Luangwa]

Nomenclature (7)

  • Acrophymus veseyi Dirsh, 1963: 70.

    Holotype; male; 53af73ff-68aa-4c1c-951e-71b120464a10; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); [Zamibia [N. Rhodesia]: Luangwa]

  • Acrophymus veseyi Dirsh, 1963 in Vesey-Fitzgerald, 1964: 369.
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  • Acrophymus veseyi Dirsh, 1963 in Timberlake, Smith, Merret, Van Niekirk, Sichamba, Mwandila & Vollesen, 2018: 17.
  • Acrophymus veseyi Dirsh, 1963 in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 14.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) A revision of the genus Acrophymus Uvarov (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 26, 64–78. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/26/1/AJA00128789_3007
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
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  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Timberlake, J., Smith, P., Merret, L., Van Niekirk, W., Sichamba, M., Mwandila, G. & Vollesen, K. (2018) The Mafinga Mountains, Zambia: Report of a reconnaissance trip, March 2018. BFA Occasional Publications in Biodiversity, 24, 1–41. Available at http://www.biodiversityfoundation.org/documents/BFA%20No.24_Mafingas%20botany.pdf
  • 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.
  • Willemse, L. (1994) Additional records of Acridoidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from Zambia with the description of a new genus and two new species. Journal of African Zoology, 108(5), 435–466.
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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Acrophymus veseyi Dirsh, 1963

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