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Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912

Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912: 2011. male (Mt. Kenya, Chogoria route, lower edge of montane rainforest). (Otu).
Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912: 2011. male (Mt. Kenya, Chogoria route, lower edge of montane rainforest). (Otu).
Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912: 2011. female (Mt. Kenya, Chogoria route, lower edge of montane rainforest). (Otu).
Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912: male (Kenya, Meru Forest Reserve Mt). (Otu).
Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912: female (Kenya, Meru Forest Reserve Mt). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: male pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: male stridulatory apparatus (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: male, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529771; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (4)

  • Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912: 12.

    Holotype; male; a2292b67-204e-42db-8f84-f00bd5dfa41f; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); United Republic of Tanzania: Arusha: Meru plains

  • Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912 in Ragge, 1968: 89.
  • Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912 in Hemp & Hemp, 2018
  • Meruterrana elegans Sjöstedt, 1912 in Hemp, 2021: 369.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Hemp, C. & Hemp, A. (2018) Conservation status of the Elegant Yellow-black Bush-cricket Meruterrana elegans (Orthoptera: Phaneropterinae)—A critically endangered species on Mount Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History, 107(1), 9–16.
  • Hemp, C. (2021) A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya. Senckenberg, 451 pp.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1968) An index-catalogue of African Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 22(3), 75–108. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis22entolond
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1912) Über einige von E. Lönnberg in Britisch Ostafrika eingesammelte Orthopteren. Arkiv för Zoologi, 7(38), 1–28. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30233#page/893/mode/1up

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