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Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888

Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888: dorsal view. (Otu).
Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888: dorsal view. (Otu).
Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888: lateral view. (Otu).
Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888: female, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Batrachotettix [sic] cantans Saussure, 1888: 144, 145.

    Syntype; 47a9166a-0281-4d58-9091-506bb67eac56; deposited at: Iziko Museums of Cape Town (SAMC); South Africa: Northern Cape: Namaqualand, Prieska. Syntypes (n= 2); male; cb457dae-8598-460e-a5ff-01a03c642dbd; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); South Africa: Northern Cape: Namaqualand, Prieska. Syntypes (n= 2); female; 07b61aa8-4c90-44f6-94e3-eb19f6fd4d65; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); South Africa: Northern Cape: Namaqualand, Prieska

  • Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888 in Kirby, 1910: 291.
  • Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888 in Hollier, 2012: 310.
  • Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888 in Massa, 2020: 49.

References (9)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1888) Additamenta ad Prodromum Oedipodiorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 30(1), 1–180. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50100#page/71/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Reynecke, A.L. (1941) Karroo grasshoppers. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 4(1), 197–205. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/4/1/AJA00128789_3251?fromSearch=true
  • 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.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • 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.
  • Hollier, J.A. (2012) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, part 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(3), 303–339. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185629#page/47/mode/1up
  • Massa, B. (2020) Remarks on some interesting African Pamphagidae and Acrididae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Zootaxa, 4751(1), 29–54.

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