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Aprosphylus hybridus Pictet, 1888

Namibian Black-kneed Katydid

Aprosphylus hybridus Pictet, 1888: Pg. 82, Pl.2, Fig.22. female, body length 26, pronotum 6, ovipositer 20, tegmen 41mm. (Otu).
Aprosphylus hybridus Pictet, 1888: Pg. 82, Pl.2, Fig.22. female, body length 26, pronotum 6, ovipositer 20, tegmen 41mm. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1505742; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505742; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea: female head and pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505742; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505742; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea: female pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505742; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea: female ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505742; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Namibia: Karas: Angra Pequefia

Nomenclature (3)

  • Aprosphylus hybridus Pictet, 1888: 67.

    Holotype; female; 07a4f8b0-6c92-4e2b-9d18-54d4c74493ea; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Namibia: Karas: Angra Pequefia

  • Aprosphylus hybridus Pictet, 1888 in Naskrecki, 1994: 286.
  • Aprosphylus hybridus Pictet, 1888 in Hollier, 2011: 367.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Hollier, J.A. (2011) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Alphonse Pictet (alone, and with Henri de Saussure) with an account of the primary type material present in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 118(2), 345–400. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43718437
  • Naskrecki, P. (1994) The Mecopodinae of southern Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Tettigoniidae). Journal of African Zoology, 108(3), 279–320. [1993]
  • 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
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Arid, temperate desert. Males calling at night from tops of shrubs.

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