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Ambositracris ornata Dirsh, 1963

CollectionObject 1540596; 6b57ac77-96ac-4da7-bb79-1425a3f6e91b: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540596; 6b57ac77-96ac-4da7-bb79-1425a3f6e91b: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540596; 6b57ac77-96ac-4da7-bb79-1425a3f6e91b: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540596; 6b57ac77-96ac-4da7-bb79-1425a3f6e91b: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1572643; 69796b14-0ba7-4462-8bcf-1963829382a8: female, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1572643; 69796b14-0ba7-4462-8bcf-1963829382a8: female, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1572643; 69796b14-0ba7-4462-8bcf-1963829382a8: labels (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Ambositracris ornatus Dirsh, 1963: 82.

    Holotype; male; 6b57ac77-96ac-4da7-bb79-1425a3f6e91b; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Madagascar

  • Ambositracris ornatus Dirsh, 1963 in Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964: 120, 129.
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  • Ambositracris ornata Dirsh, 1963 in Kevan, 1977: 87.
  • Ambositracris ornata Dirsh, 1963 in Krištín, Heller, Zemko, Rakotondranary & Jarčuška, 2019

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) The Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Madagascar III. Pyrgomorphidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 14, 51–103. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19401#page/65/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1971) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth. Acridoidea). Part III. Tribes Chapmanacridini, Ichthiacridini, Ichthyotettigini, Orthacridini, Popoviini and Nereniini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 46, 123–208, 222–223. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/164438
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Singh, A. (1964) A new genus and two new species of Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from Madagascar, with notes on the genus Geloius Saussure. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 90, 111–129.
  • Krištín, A., Heller, K.-G., Zemko, M., Rakotondranary, J. & Jarčuška, B. (2019) Assemblages of orthopteroid insects along environmental gradients in central and southern Madagasca. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 28(2), 155–166. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/34055/
  • Wintrebert, D. (1972) Nouvelles contributions à l'étude des Acridoidea malgaches (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 198, 1–129.

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