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Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1878

Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1878: reproduced with permission. female (Cape Town, South Africa). (Otu).
Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1878: reproduced with permission. female (Cape Town, South Africa). (Otu).
Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1878: reproduced with permission. female (Cape Town, South Africa). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1530707; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530707; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530707; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1: metanotal gland (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530707; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530707; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530707; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1: supra-anal plate (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530792; 90f0f4a8-f6f4-4e54-b804-ba340a0625fb: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530792; 90f0f4a8-f6f4-4e54-b804-ba340a0625fb: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530792; 90f0f4a8-f6f4-4e54-b804-ba340a0625fb: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530792; 90f0f4a8-f6f4-4e54-b804-ba340a0625fb: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Syntype; male; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); South Africa: Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope

Nomenclature (12)

  • Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1878: 456 [596]. (valid)

    Syntype; male; 536b8293-e24f-4f2a-b80a-96d7d7e9a1b1; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); South Africa: Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope. Syntype; female; 90f0f4a8-f6f4-4e54-b804-ba340a0625fb; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); South Africa: Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope

  • Acanthus [sic] capensis Saussure, 1878 in Bormans, 1883: 708.
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  • Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1878 in Picker, Griffiths & Weaving, 2005: 86.
  • Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1878 in Hollier, Bruckner & Heads, 2013: 466.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Bormans, A.de (1883) Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equatoriale. Resultati zoologici. Ortotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 18, 704–708. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95241#page/711/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1932) The African species of the genus Oecanthus, Serv. (Orth, Gryllidae). Stylops: A Journal of Taxonomic Entomology, 1, 242–247. Available at https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1932.tb01339.x
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  • Chopard, L. (1955) Orthoptera Ensifera. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 2, 266–300.
  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • 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
  • Holstein, J. & Ingrisch, S. (2004) Catalogue of type specimens of Orthoptera (Insecta) deposited in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart. Part 1: Ensifera. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie).
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Picker, M., Griffiths, C. & Weaving, A. (2005) In Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, South Africa. 444 pp.
  • Toms, R.B. & Otte, D. (1988) New genera, species and records of east and southern African tree crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). Annale van die Transvaal Museum, 34(20), 469–521. Available at https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00411752_124
  • Toms, R.B. (1992) Effects of temperature on chirp rates of tree crickets (Orthoptera, Oecanthidae). Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Dierkunde, 27, 70–73.
  • Walker, T.J. (1966) Annotated checklist of Oecanthinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) of the World. The Florida Entomologist, 49(4), 265–277. Available at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/pdf/walker1966.pdf
  • de Saussure, H. (1878) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. VI. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(2), 369–704 [505–834]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122148#page/525/mode/1up
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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