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Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954

Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954: 2012. female (Kilimanjaro, Chala area). (Otu).
Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954: 2012. female (Kilimanjaro, Chala area). (Otu).
Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954: 2012. female (Kilimanjaro, Chala area). (Otu).
Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954: 2012. male (Kilimanjaro, Chala area). (Otu).
Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954: 2012. male nymph (Kilimanjaro, Chala area). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1517312; d616a2e6-4d2a-43f0-bfe8-cd1ff155cd62: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517312; d616a2e6-4d2a-43f0-bfe8-cd1ff155cd62: male stridulatory area (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517312; d616a2e6-4d2a-43f0-bfe8-cd1ff155cd62: male subgenital plate and cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; d616a2e6-4d2a-43f0-bfe8-cd1ff155cd62; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: North-Eastern: El Katulo, Wajir District

Nomenclature (6)

  • Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954 in Chopard & Kevan, 1954: 325.

    Holotype; male; d616a2e6-4d2a-43f0-bfe8-cd1ff155cd62; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: North-Eastern: El Katulo, Wajir District

  • Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954 in Hemp, 2013: 347.
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  • Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954 in Massa, 2015: 89.
  • Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954 in Hemp, 2021: 321.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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.
  • Heller, K.-G., Hemp, C., Ingrisch, S. & Liu, C. (2015) Acoustic communication in Phaneropterinae (Tettigonioidea) - a global review with some new data. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 24(1), 7–18. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1665/034.024.0103
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  • Hemp, C. (2013) Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Zootaxa, 3613(4), 301–342.
  • Hemp, C. (2013) Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa. Zootaxa, 3737(4), 301–350.
  • Hemp, C. (2021) In A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya. Senckenberg. 451 pp.
  • Massa, B. (2015) New genera, species and records of Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera, Phaneropteridae) from sub-Saharan Africa. ZooKeys, 472, 77–102. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4521
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Not specified. Tree savanna at East Kilimanjaro and dry forest at northern slopes of North Pare Mountains.

Melidia laminata Chopard, 1954

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