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Arantia (Euarantia) excelsior Karsch, 1889

CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female, dorsal view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female, dorsal view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female, dorsal view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female, lateral view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female, lateral view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female pronotum, lateral view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: face (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: ovipositor (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: female ovipositor (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500500; 9c395edf-0f29-4d2c-b734-5d9123db25f9, DORSA BTaramamHTF: labels (holotype of Arantia mammisignum). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male stridulatory apparatus (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male subgenital plate (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1534624; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535157; 0fb1bafa-94b6-40cd-b628-bb8dd8d0f691: male, dorsal view (lectotype of Arantia tigrina). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535157; 0fb1bafa-94b6-40cd-b628-bb8dd8d0f691: male stridulatory apparatus (lectotype of Arantia tigrina). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535157; 0fb1bafa-94b6-40cd-b628-bb8dd8d0f691: male head and pronotum, lateral view (lectotype of Arantia tigrina). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535157; 0fb1bafa-94b6-40cd-b628-bb8dd8d0f691: male face (lectotype of Arantia tigrina). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535157; 0fb1bafa-94b6-40cd-b628-bb8dd8d0f691: male cerci (lectotype of Arantia tigrina). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535157; 0fb1bafa-94b6-40cd-b628-bb8dd8d0f691: labels (lectotype of Arantia tigrina). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (21)

  • Arantia excelsior Karsch, 1889: 434, 43.

    Holotype; male; 8f711820-4e63-4e33-aaac-45cb2042c27f; deposited at: Polish Academy of Science, Museum of the Institute of Zoology (MZPW); Sierra Leone

  • Arantia excelsior Karsch, 1889 in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891: 64, 65.
  • Arantia (Euarantia) excelsior Karsch, 1889 in Massa, 2021: 63.
  • Arantia (Euarantia) excelsior Karsch, 1889 in Massa, 2025: 37.

References (16)

  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1889) Orthopterologische Beiträge III. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 32, 415–464. [1888] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34458#page/475/mode/1up
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1891) Additamenta zur Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 1–196. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/141/mode/1up
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1896) Neue Orthopteren aus dem tropischen Afrika. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 57, 242–359. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36013#page/250/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1906) Fasgonurídeos de la Guinea Española. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 1, 327–377. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1342
  • Griffini, A. (1906) Ortotteri raccolti da Leonardo Fea nell'Africa occidentale. 1. Hetrodidi, Conocephalidi, Meconemidi, Pseudophyllidi, Mecopodidi e Fanerotteridi. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 3(2), 358–397. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137853#page/366/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
  • Bruner, L. (1920) Orthoptera from Africa, being a report upon some Saltatoria mainly from Cameroon contained in the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 13, 92–142. [1919] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38118
  • Chopard, L. (1954) La Réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt. Nimba, III. Orthoptères Ensifères. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, 40(2), 25–97.
  • 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
  • Paris, M. (1994) Catálogo de tipos de ortopteroides (Insecta) de Ignacio Bolivar, I: Blattaria, Mantodea, Phasmoptera y Orthoptera (Stenopelmatoidea, Rhaphidophoroidea, Tettigonioidea, Grylloidea, Tetrigoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 69, 143–264. [1993] Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/170427
  • Naskrecki, P. (2006) Evaluation rapide des sauterelles (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) sur des sites particuliers de la Guinée Forestière en Guinée (Afrique de l’Ouest). RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, 40, 46–52.
  • Heller, K.-G., Hemp, C., Liu, C. & Volleth, M. (2014) Taxonomic, bioacoustic and faunistic data on a collection of Tettigonioidea from eastern Congo (Insecta: Orthoptera). Zootaxa, 3785(3), 343–376.
  • Hemp, C. & Massa, B. (2017) Review of the African genera Arantia Stål and Goetia Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Zootaxa, 4362(4), 451–498.
  • Massa, B., Annoyer, P., Perez, C., Danflous, S. & Duvot, G. (2020) Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Conocephalinae, Hexacentrinae, Phaneropterinae, Mecopodinae, Hetrodinae) from some protected areas of Central African Republic. Zootaxa, 4780(3), 401–447.
  • Massa, B. (2021) Tettigoniidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) collected in tropical forests of Zambia, Cameroon, Gabon and São Tomé during the entomological expeditions of African Natural History Research Trust. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 57(1), 29–76.
  • Massa, B. (2025) Diversity of Leaf Katydids of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo, Central Tropical Africa (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Insects, 16(3: 241), 1–71. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16030241

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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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