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Chortoscirtes meruense (Sjöstedt, 1910)

CollectionObject 1500246; 30a5c4f1-34e8-4bae-9993-cc2b763b7c46: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500246; 30a5c4f1-34e8-4bae-9993-cc2b763b7c46: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500246; 30a5c4f1-34e8-4bae-9993-cc2b763b7c46: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500246; 30a5c4f1-34e8-4bae-9993-cc2b763b7c46: male head and pronotum, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500246; 30a5c4f1-34e8-4bae-9993-cc2b763b7c46: male frons (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500246; 30a5c4f1-34e8-4bae-9993-cc2b763b7c46: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: male pronotum, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: male face (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: male abdomen tip, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: male abdomen tip, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: male subgenital plate (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530613; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Xiphidion meruense Sjöstedt, 1910: 138.

    Syntype; male; 30a5c4f1-34e8-4bae-9993-cc2b763b7c46; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); United Republic of Tanzania: Arusha: Meru plains. Syntype; male; 97680aca-b438-4491-86a4-4c961f30e976; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); United Republic of Tanzania: Arusha: Meru plains

  • Conocephalus (Xiphidion) meruensis (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Karny, 1912: 12.
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  • Chortoscirtes meruensis (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Hemp, 2013: 314.
  • Chortoscirtes meruensis (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Hemp, 2021: 80.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Chopard, L. (1938) Mission scientifique de l'Omo: Orthoptera I. Dictyoptera, Phasmodea, Ensifera. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelle Série. Série A. Zoologie, 8, 89–134. Available at http://archive.org/details/biostor-253873/mode/2up
  • Hemp, C. (2013) Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Zootaxa, 3613(4), 301–342.
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  • Hemp, C. (2021) A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya. Senckenberg, 451 pp.
  • Hemp, C., Heller, K.-G., Kehl, S., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Wägele, J.W. & Hemp, A. (2010) The Phlesirtes complex (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Conocephalini) reviewed: integrating morphological, molecular, chromosomal and bioacoustic data. Systematic Entomology, 35, 554–580.
  • Karny, H.H. (1912) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae Subfam. Conocephalinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 135, 1–17 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123362#page/3/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 6. Locustodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 125–148. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/241/mode/1up

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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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