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Cyphocerastis elegans Ramme, 1929

Nomenclature (3)

  • Cyphocerastis elegans Ramme, 1929: 351.

    Syntype; male; 0168e0a0-79b0-4e25-b89a-62029f253fa4; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Orientale: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mobwasa. Syntype; female; eadeb584-b899-465e-8f1a-f8f8c76d883b; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC); Democratic Republic of the Congo: Orientale: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mobwasa

  • Cyphocerastis elegans Ramme, 1929 in Johnston, 1956: 272.
  • Cyphocerastis elegans Ramme, 1929 in Dirsh, 1965: 240.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • 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.

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