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Acanthoscirtes bilineatus (Chopard, 1954)

CollectionObject 1516727; 5d6af1ae-b45a-46bd-9881-1f7e9baef925: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516727; 5d6af1ae-b45a-46bd-9881-1f7e9baef925: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 5d6af1ae-b45a-46bd-9881-1f7e9baef925; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: Marsabit District, Chopa Gof Crater

Nomenclature (3)

  • Phlesirtes bilineatus Chopard, 1954 in Chopard & Kevan, 1954: 337.

    Holotype; female; 5d6af1ae-b45a-46bd-9881-1f7e9baef925; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: Marsabit District, Chopa Gof Crater

  • Phlesirtes bilineatus Chopard, 1954 in Hemp, Heller, Kehl, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Wägele & Hemp, 2010: 560.
  • Acanthoscirtes bilineatus (Chopard, 1954) in Hemp, Kehl, Heller, Wägele & Hemp, 2012: 403.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Chopard, L. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1954) Orthoptera-Ensifera from Kenya and Jubaland. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 105, 315–353.
  • 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.
  • Hemp, C., Kehl, S., Heller, K.-G., Wägele, J.W. & Hemp, A. (2012) Ecological adaptations of grassland-inhabiting flightless Orthoptera: Fulvoscirtes and Acanthoscirtes, two new genera of African Karniellina (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Conocephalini). Systematic Entomology, 37, 387–407.
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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