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Species

Teleogryllus (Teleogryllus) afer (Saussure, 1877)

Nomenclature (7)

  • Gryllus afer Saussure, 1877: 159.

    Syntype; male; db74fabd-95cf-4f29-b662-d8c1f3420602; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Mozambique: Baie d'Algoa. Syntype; female; 36d6f14f-a236-4176-9e7e-9419b66a0109; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Zanzibar. Syntype; female; d5a83b14-d75d-4b58-b4b5-7da90f3a33ff; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Madagascar

  • Gryllus afer Saussure, 1877 in Giglio-Tos, 1907: 7.
  • Teleogryllus afer (Saussure, 1877) in Hollier, Bruckner & Heads, 2013: 449.
  • Teleogryllus (Teleogryllus) afer (Saussure, 1877) in Hugel, 2022: 998.

References (7)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1877) Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(1), 169–504 [1–352]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35307
  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1907) Ortotteri di Madagascar. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 22(569), 1–8. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43468#page/179/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1961) Les divisions du genre Gryllus basées sur l'étude de l'appareil copulateur (Orth. Gryllidae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 37(3), 267–287. [1960] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/157258
  • Chopard, L. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 1–213.
  • Otte, D. & Cade, W.H. (1983) African crickets (Gryllidae) 1. Teleogryllus of eastern and southern Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 135, 102–127.
  • Hollier, J.A., Bruckner, H. & Heads, S.W. (2013) 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 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(3), 445–535. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/202907#page/103/mode/1up
  • Hugel, S. (2022) Orthoptera: Caelifera and Ensifera, grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, valala, angely. In S.M. Goodman (Ed.). The New Natural History of Madagascar (Ed. S.M. Goodman). Princeton University Press. S.M. Goodman, Vol. 1, 996–1014 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023