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Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945

Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: female, lateral view. (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: Fig. 1. female habitus (body length 19 mm, pronotum 2.4 mm, hind femur 8.6 mm) (holotype). (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: Fig. 2. female, dorsal view (holotype). (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: Fig. 3. female head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: Fig. 4 (after type). female abdomen tip, dorsal view. (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: Fig. 5 (after type). female abdomen tip, ventral view. (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: Fig. 6 (after type). outline of prosternal process. (Otu).
Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: Fig. 7 (after type). hind tarsus. (Otu).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945: 4.

    Holotype; female; ANSPType No. 5702; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); South Africa: Western Cape: Seven Weeks Poort

  • Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945 in Dirsh, 1956: 161, 257.
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  • Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945 in Johnston, 1968: 137.
  • Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945 in Lu & Zha, 2020: 9.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • 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. (1958) Acridological notes. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 101, 51–63. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89774#page/65/mode/1up
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) New Acridoidea (Orthoptera) from the Karroo Region, South Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 21, 323–332. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/21/2/AJA00128789_2513
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) 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.
  • Lu, Y.-Z. & Zha, L. (2020) A new species of the genus Lamellitettigodes (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from PR China, with taxonomic notes on the genus. Zootaxa, 4851(2), 338–348.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1945) A new genus and species of Locust of the group Euthymiae (Orthoptera, Acridiidae, Cyrtacanthacridinae) from South Africa. Notulae Naturae, no. 155, 1–7. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=C04l4zxp-wEC

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