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Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910

Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Plate 3, p. 21. male resting on a dry Rhigozum trichotomum branch. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Plate 3, p. 21. male resting on a dry Rhigozum trichotomum branch. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Plate 4, p. 21. female Shelfordites aberrans clinging to its host plant. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 64.1. male. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 64.2 (after Brown 1967). phallic complex, dorsal view. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 64.3 (after Brown 1967). phallic complex, lateral view. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 64.4 (after Brown 1967). endophallus, lateral view. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 64.5 (after Brown 1967). epiphallus. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 12 (after type specimen). female habitus. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 12 (after type). female, head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 12 (after type). female face. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 3a. male habitus. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 3b. male, head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 3c. male, face. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 3d. male, end of abdomen, lateral view. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 3e. male, end of abdomen, dorsal view. (Otu).
Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: Fig. 3f. male, meso- and metasternum. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1501095; 7bdf8cfe-6ca0-43ea-8238-d024e8f22729: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501095; 7bdf8cfe-6ca0-43ea-8238-d024e8f22729: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1501095; 7bdf8cfe-6ca0-43ea-8238-d024e8f22729: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501095; 7bdf8cfe-6ca0-43ea-8238-d024e8f22729: female, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501095; 7bdf8cfe-6ca0-43ea-8238-d024e8f22729: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (11)

  • Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910: 78.

    Holotype; female; 7bdf8cfe-6ca0-43ea-8238-d024e8f22729; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Namibia: South Hereroland

  • Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910 in Uvarov, 1929: 69.
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  • Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910 in Otte, 1995: 11.
  • Shelfordites aberrans Karny, 1910 in Otte, 2020: 16.

References (11)

  • Brown, H.D. (1967) A new grasshopper allied to Shelfordites Karny from South West Africa (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Cimbebasia, Ser. A (Vol. 1,No.1), 4–22.
  • 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.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1975) Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects. E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon, 1–171 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.
  • Karny, H.H. (1910) Orthoptera (s. str.). In Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. Vol. 4, pp. 35–90, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114237#page/51/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Otte, D. (2020) Thirty-two new South African grasshopper species in the family Lentulidae belonging to eleven genera (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 146(1), 1–164.
  • 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
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1929) Contributions to a knowledge of the Fauna of South West Africa. VIII. Records and descriptions of Acrididae from S.W. Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 29, 41–75. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127106#page/65/mode/1up

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