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Chapmanacris sylvatica Dirsh, 1959

CollectionObject 1518332; 7adc23c6-a6ff-4eab-90ca-9c99853548c5: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518332; 7adc23c6-a6ff-4eab-90ca-9c99853548c5: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518332; 7adc23c6-a6ff-4eab-90ca-9c99853548c5: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518332; 7adc23c6-a6ff-4eab-90ca-9c99853548c5: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Chapmanacris sylvatica Dirsh, 1959: 21.

    Holotype; male; 7adc23c6-a6ff-4eab-90ca-9c99853548c5; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Ghana: Eastern: Essuboni Forest Reserve

  • Chapmanacris sylvatica Dirsh, 1959 in Chapman, 1960: 240.
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  • Chapmanacris sylvatica Dirsh, 1959 in Otte, 1994: 1.
  • Chapmanacris sylvatica Dirsh, 1959 in Mestre & Chiffaud, 2006: 99.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Chapman, R.F. (1960) Some new and little known Acridoidea (Orthoptera) from West Africa. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 96, 240–242. [1961]
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1959) New genera and species of Acridoidea from tropical Africa (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 35, 21–39. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155679
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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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Mestre, J. & Chiffaud, J. (2006) In Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to woodland habitat in the Essuboni Forest where it was found.

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