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Oecanthus karschi Chopard, 1932

CollectionObject 1517878; NHMUK015982391, b29d4d00-3384-4f98-ba12-61641470f454: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517878; NHMUK015982391, b29d4d00-3384-4f98-ba12-61641470f454: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517878; NHMUK015982391, b29d4d00-3384-4f98-ba12-61641470f454: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2066831; NHMUK015982379, d72ce055-978d-4fce-8b97-f59316ce06ac: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2066831; NHMUK015982379, d72ce055-978d-4fce-8b97-f59316ce06ac: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; NHMUK015982391; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: Eastern Cape: Port St. John

Nomenclature (6)

  • Oecanthus karschi Chopard, 1932: 246.

    Holotype; male; NHMUK015982391; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: Eastern Cape: Port St. John

  • Oecanthus karschi Chopard, 1932 in Walker, 1966: 270.
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  • Oecanthus karschi Chopard, 1932 in Toms, 1992
  • Oecanthus karschi Chopard, 1932 in Picker, Griffiths & Weaving, 2005: 86.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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
  • 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.
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  • 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
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in genitive case
Etymology:

After the German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist Ferdinand Karsch (1853-1936).

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