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Acanthoproctus cervinus (Haan, 1843)

CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: male, lateral view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: male, lateral view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: male, dorsal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: male, dorsal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: male, frontal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: male subgenital plate (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: male abdominal apex (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1475458; b12a5578-b985-4463-9c13-bad7d10ad350: labels (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516909; af6b99b3-d2f8-4be6-92a1-ecfb3e3ec4e6: male, lateral view (holotype of Hetrodes fortis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516909; af6b99b3-d2f8-4be6-92a1-ecfb3e3ec4e6: male pronotum, lateral view (holotype of Hetrodes fortis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516909; af6b99b3-d2f8-4be6-92a1-ecfb3e3ec4e6: male face (holotype of Hetrodes fortis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516909; af6b99b3-d2f8-4be6-92a1-ecfb3e3ec4e6: male pronotum, dorsal view (holotype of Hetrodes fortis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516909; af6b99b3-d2f8-4be6-92a1-ecfb3e3ec4e6: male, dorsal view (holotype of Hetrodes fortis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516909; af6b99b3-d2f8-4be6-92a1-ecfb3e3ec4e6: male stridulatory apparatus (holotype of Hetrodes fortis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516909; af6b99b3-d2f8-4be6-92a1-ecfb3e3ec4e6: labels (holotype of Hetrodes fortis). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568345; de1d0b69-850a-480e-be2a-58bd41c3a481: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568345; de1d0b69-850a-480e-be2a-58bd41c3a481: male pronotum, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568345; de1d0b69-850a-480e-be2a-58bd41c3a481: male head and pronotum, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568345; de1d0b69-850a-480e-be2a-58bd41c3a481: male, frontal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568345; de1d0b69-850a-480e-be2a-58bd41c3a481: male abdomen. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568345; de1d0b69-850a-480e-be2a-58bd41c3a481: male cerci. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568345; de1d0b69-850a-480e-be2a-58bd41c3a481: labels. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568346; b8f49413-fa4b-4ef1-bb6c-0050911ce6e6: female, lateral view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568346; b8f49413-fa4b-4ef1-bb6c-0050911ce6e6: female, lateral view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568346; b8f49413-fa4b-4ef1-bb6c-0050911ce6e6: female, dorsal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568346; b8f49413-fa4b-4ef1-bb6c-0050911ce6e6: female, ventral view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568346; b8f49413-fa4b-4ef1-bb6c-0050911ce6e6: female, frontal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568346; b8f49413-fa4b-4ef1-bb6c-0050911ce6e6: labels (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568347; 55799a4a-7362-41ad-9397-a23e03c6d0ef: male, lateral view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568347; 55799a4a-7362-41ad-9397-a23e03c6d0ef: male, dorsal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568347; 55799a4a-7362-41ad-9397-a23e03c6d0ef: male abdominal apex (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568347; 55799a4a-7362-41ad-9397-a23e03c6d0ef: labels (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568348; 2cb6c708-0bee-40bc-9f80-b316f4b2ba63: female, lateral view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568348; 2cb6c708-0bee-40bc-9f80-b316f4b2ba63: female, dorsal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568348; 2cb6c708-0bee-40bc-9f80-b316f4b2ba63: female head and pronotum, dorsal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568348; 2cb6c708-0bee-40bc-9f80-b316f4b2ba63: female, frontal view (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568348; 2cb6c708-0bee-40bc-9f80-b316f4b2ba63: female ovipositor (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568348; 2cb6c708-0bee-40bc-9f80-b316f4b2ba63: female subgenital plate (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1568348; 2cb6c708-0bee-40bc-9f80-b316f4b2ba63: labels (syntype of Acanthoproctus elaphos). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (26)

  • Locusta (Hetrodes) cervinus Haan, 1843: 182, 183.

    Syntype; 04331bd5-6a80-4ed2-a314-6881538d39b9; deposited at: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC); [Cape, Karroo, Namaqualand, Botswana, Southwest Africa/Great Namaland, Tanzania]

  • Hetrodes militaris White, 1846 in Methuen, 1846: 316.
  • Acanthoproctus elaphos Weidner, 1941 (subjective synonym of Locusta (Hetrodes) cervinus Haan, 1843) in Dey & Husemann, 2018: 117.
  • Acanthoproctus cervinus (Haan, 1843) in Heller, Chobanov, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Hemp, 2022: 472.

References (20)

  • de Haan, W. (1843) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Orthoptera. In Temminck [Ed.] Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen: Vol. 19/20. In commissie bij S. en J. Luchtmans, en C.C. van der Hoek, Leiden. 165–228 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/200624#page/647/mode/1up
  • Methuen (1846) Life in the Wilderness. London.
  • Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 2, 225–423 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci02britrich
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1887) Orthopterologische Beiträge. II. Ueber die Hetrodiden. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 31, 43–72. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51648#page/113/mode/1up
  • Pictet, A. (1888) Locustides nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée de Genève. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 30(6), 1–84. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50100#page/664/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1899) Notes on the family Hetrodidae, with a list of the described species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3, 97–102, 141–146. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63341#page/111/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Karny, H.H. (1910) Orthoptera (s. str.). In Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. Vol. 4, pp. 35–90, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114237#page/51/mode/1up
  • Louis Péringuey, L. (1916) Descriptions of new or little-known Orthoptera in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum, 15(6), 401–452, pl. 42. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1552258
  • Karny, H.H. (1920) Zur Deutung der de Haan'schen Laubheuschrecken. Zoologische Mededeelingen, 5(4), 139–210. Available at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319396
  • Weidner, H. (1941) Die Hetrodinae des Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museums und Instituts. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 134, 268–295.
  • 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.
  • Weidner, H. (1955) Die Hetrodinae (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 53, 110–166.
  • Weidner, H. (1966) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg VI. Teil. Insecta III. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 63, 209–264. Available at http://www.cenak.uni-hamburg.de/sammlungen/zoologie/entomologie/typenkatalog/weidner-1966-blattariae-thysanoptera.pdf
  • Irish, J. (1992) The Hetrodinae (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Bradyporidae) of southern Africa: Systematics and phylogeny. Navorsinge Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein, 8(8), 393–433.
  • Picker, M.D., Griffiths, C.L. & Weaving, A. (2005) Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, South Africa, 444 pp.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2011) Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine. University of Chicago Press, 384 pp.
  • Kowalski, K.N. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2013) The acoustic communication system in six species of armoured ground crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hetrodinae): Commonalities and species-specific differences. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 252(2), 204–216. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044523112000368
  • Dey, L.-S. & Husemann, M. (2018) An annotated catalogue of the types of bush-crickets and crickets (Orthoptera, Ensifera) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH). Evolutionary Systematics, 2, 115–124. Available at http://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/27030/
  • Heller, K.-G., Chobanov, D.P., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. & Hemp, C. (2022) Review of song patterns and sound production in armoured ground crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hetrodini) with karyological data and taxonomic notes. Zootaxa, 5120(4), 451–481.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
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Species1045