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† Amusurgus (Amusurgus) africanus Chopard, 1936

Nomenclature (5)

  • † Amusurgus africanus Chopard, 1936: 383. (fossil)

    Holotype; female; NHMUK58584; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK);

  • † Amusurgus africanus Chopard, 1936 in Zeuner, 1939: 215.
  • † Amusurgus africanus Chopard, 1936 in Desutter-Grandcolas, Hugel, Nel, Warren, Souza-Dias & Chintauan-Marquier, 2021: 85, 86.
  • † Amusurgus africanus Chopard, 1936 in Liu, Yu & He, 2022: 1, 2.

References (5)

  • Chopard, L. (1936) Orthoptères fossiles et subfossiles de l'ambre et du copal. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 105, 375–386. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5460964n/f77.item
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1939) Fossil Orthoptera, Ensifera. British Museum (Natural History), London, 321 pp.
  • Plotnick, R.E. & Smith, D.M. (2012) Exceptionally preserved fossil insect ears from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado. Journal of Paleontology, 86(1), 19–24.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Hugel, S., Nel, A., Warren, B.H., Souza-Dias, P.G.B. & Chintauan-Marquier, I.C. (2021) Updated diagnoses for the cricket family Trigonidiidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea) and its subfamilies (Trigonidiinae, Nemobiinae), with a review of the fossil record. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 294, 80–91.
  • Liu, Y.-J., Yu, Z.-Y. & He, Z. (2022) A new genus with a new species of cricket from mid-Cretaceous Burmese Kachin amber (Orthoptera: Trigonidiidae). Cretaceous Research, 138.

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