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Lentula mecostiboides Ramme, 1929

Lentula mecostiboides Ramme, 1929: female, lateral view. (Otu).
Lentula mecostiboides Ramme, 1929: female, lateral view. (Otu).
Lentula mecostiboides Ramme, 1929: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Lentula mecostiboides Ramme, 1929: female, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1501081; e12d457f-66db-433e-948f-388fa99e9df8: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501081; e12d457f-66db-433e-948f-388fa99e9df8: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501081; e12d457f-66db-433e-948f-388fa99e9df8: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501081; e12d457f-66db-433e-948f-388fa99e9df8: female, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501081; e12d457f-66db-433e-948f-388fa99e9df8: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Lentula mecostiboides Ramme, 1929: 296.

    Holotype; female; e12d457f-66db-433e-948f-388fa99e9df8; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN);

  • Paralentula mecostiboides (Ramme, 1929) in Rehn, 1944: 126.
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  • Paralentula mecostiboides (Ramme, 1929) in Johnston, 1968: 131.
  • Lentula mecostiboides Ramme, 1929 in Otte, Cowper & Armstrong, 2023: 186, 192.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
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  • 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.
  • Otte, D., Cowper, G. & Armstrong, A.J. (2023) Revision of Lentula, Nyassacris, Basutacris and Qachasia, with descriptions of three new genera and 26 new species (Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 149(2), 185–234. https://doi.org/10.3157/061.149.0205
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1944) A review of the Old World Euthymiae (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 96, 1–135. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=axt087cw1R0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to similarity to genus Mecostibus Karsch, 1896.

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