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Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956

Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: female, lateral view. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: epiphallus, dorsal and posterior views. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: lateral view of male aedeagus. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: male, head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: male, frontal view. (Otu).
Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: male, head and pronotum, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956: 288.

    Holotype; male; 5b1a7353-df91-4a01-9c99-cd655e700cd1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); between Aberdeen & Somerset East.

  • Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956 in Brown, 1960: 130.
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  • Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956 in Otte, 1995: 11.
  • Leatettix laticornis Dirsh, 1956 in Otte, 2014: 350.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Brown, H.D. (1960) New grasshoppers (Acridoidea) from the Great Kattoo and South Eastern Cape Province. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 23(1), 126–143. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/23/1/AJA00128789_2815
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Some new and little known South African Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 19, 250–288. Available at https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/AJA00128789_4335
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • 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. (2014) Twenty-nine new species in the genus Leatettix (Acridoidea: Lentulidae) from the Southern, Western and Northern Cape, South Africa. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 140, 349–401. Available at http://authors.entomology-aes.org/article/public/18.pdf
  • Ritchie, J.M. (1982) New and little-known Acridoidea (Insecta, Orthoptera) from Somalia. 1. The genus Merehana Kevan and its taxonomic affinities, with a redefinition of the Shelforditinae. Monitore zoologico italiano (N.S.), Suppl. 17(6), 171–181. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03749444.1982.10736664

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