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Socotracris kleukersi Felix & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012

Socotracris kleukersi Felix & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012: male in situ (cave Wadi Zerik, Socotra, Yemen). (Otu).
Socotracris kleukersi Felix & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012: male in situ (cave Wadi Zerik, Socotra, Yemen). (Otu).
Socotracris kleukersi Felix & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012: male in situ (cave Wadi Zerik, Socotra, Yemen). (Otu).
Socotracris kleukersi Felix & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012: female in situ (cave Wadi Zerik, Socotra, Yemen). (Otu).

Nomenclature (2)

  • Socotracris kleukersi Felix & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012 in Desutter-Grandcolas & Felix, 2012: 59.

    Holotype; male; 7ce755fb-c8a4-46c2-9d6a-5cca74713caa; deposited at: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC); Yemen: Hadramawt: Diksam Plateau, cave Wadi Zerik

  • Socotracris kleukersi Felix & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012 in Felix, Bouwman, Odé, Ketelaar, Pham & Bailey, 2025: 136.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. & Felix, R. (2012) Socotracris kleukersi n. gen. n. sp., a new troglobitic cricket from Socotra (Yemen) (Orthoptera: Grylloidea, Phalangopsidae). Zootaxa, 3252, 57–65.
  • Felix, R., Bouwman, J., Odé, B., Ketelaar, R., Pham, D.M. & Bailey, J. (2025) The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae). Contributions to Entomology, 75(1), 21–166. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389

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Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the Dutch orthopterist Roy Kleukers (Leiden, The Netherlands), a leading authority on the study of Dutch Orthoptera. Roy has been of great help prior to and after the field studies on Socotra.

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