Nomenclature (10)

  • Xiphocera spectrum Saussure, 1887: 31, 41.

    Holotype; male; 21ea254f-1aa3-4b16-90aa-883742ed07b2; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN); Angola: Huíla: Caconda, Quando

  • Xiphocera spectrum Saussure, 1887 in Bolívar, 1889: 153.
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  • Lobosceliana spectrum (Saussure, 1887) in Johnston, 1968: 48, 51.
  • Lobosceliana spectrum (Saussure, 1887) in Hollier, 2012: 330.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Bolívar, I. (1889) Ortópteros de Africa del Museo de Lisboa (3). Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 2), 1, 150–173. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23044
  • de Saussure, H. (1887) Tribu des Pamphagiens. Spicilegia Entomologica genavensis, 2, 1–94. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38187#page/7/mode/1up
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Revision of the group Portheti (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 34, 299–400. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155628
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 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
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin for appearance or apparition.

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