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Digentia karnyi (Ramme, 1929)

CollectionObject 1589512; d3b99770-6c14-4ecb-8aa5-e91091b5fef3, DORSA BA000073S01: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1589512; d3b99770-6c14-4ecb-8aa5-e91091b5fef3, DORSA BA000073S01: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1589512; d3b99770-6c14-4ecb-8aa5-e91091b5fef3, DORSA BA000073S01: female, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1589512; d3b99770-6c14-4ecb-8aa5-e91091b5fef3, DORSA BA000073S01: female, ventral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1589512; d3b99770-6c14-4ecb-8aa5-e91091b5fef3, DORSA BA000073S01: female, frontal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1589512; d3b99770-6c14-4ecb-8aa5-e91091b5fef3, DORSA BA000073S01: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (5)

  • Genditia karnyi Ramme, 1929: 331. (valid)

    Holotype; female; ed4e2acc-162a-4ea9-8eac-dfef112435f7; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Bandundu: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Tolo

  • Genditia karnyi Ramme, 1929 (subjective synonym of Genditia rufogeniculata Bolívar, 1911) in Dirsh, 1952: 268.
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  • Digentia karnyi (Ramme, 1929) in Hollis, 1975: 224.
  • Digentia karnyi (Ramme, 1929) in Oumarou-Ngoute & Rowell, 2025: 19.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1952) Studies on new and little known African Acrididae (Orthoptera). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 46, 258–268.
  • Hollis, D. (1975) A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 31(6), 189–234. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2355540#page/269/mode/1up
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2025) Review of the African genus Digentia Stål, 1878 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 11–30. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.126949
  • Ramme, W. (1929) Afrikanische Acrididae. Revisionen und Beschreibungen wenig bekannter und neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15, 247–492.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Dedicated to the Austrian entomologist and orthopterologist Heinrich Hugo Karny (1886–1939).

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