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species Acanthoproctus cervinus (Haan, 1843)

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• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Semi-arid and arid habitats including the Kalahari and Namib deserts, Succulent and Nama Karoo as well as Fynbos biomes.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (14):
  • Haan. 1843. Temminck [Ed.] Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen 19/20:182, 183   >> Locusta (Hetrodes) cervinus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:14968
  • Karsch. 1887. Berlin Ent. Z. 31:66   >> Acanthoproctus cervinus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:14967
  • Pictet. 1888. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 30(6):69, 70   >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Karny. 1910. In Schultze, L. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgefürhrt in den Jahren 1903-1905. Denkschr. med. naturwiss. Ges. Jena 4:47   >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Péringuey. 1916. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 15(6):431   >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Karny. 1920. Zool. Mededelingen (Leiden) 5(4):203   >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Weidner. 1941. Zool. Anz. 134:292, 294 >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Weidner. 1955. Mitt. Hamburg. zool. Mus. Inst. 53:154 >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Chopard. 1955. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951 2:285 >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Irish. 1992. Navorsinge Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein 8(8):420 >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Picker, M., Griffiths & Weaving. 2005. Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa 78 >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Naskrecki. 2011. Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine 138 >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Kowalski & Lakes-Harlan. 2013. Zool. Anz. 252(2):204-216   >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
  • Heller, K.-G., Chobanov, Warchalowska-Sliwa & C. Hemp. 2022. Zootaxa 5120(4):472 >> Acanthoproctus cervinus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa, [Cape, Karroo, Namaqualand, Botswana, Southwest Africa/Great Namaland, Tanzania]
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Location of type:  NBC Leiden

• synonym elaphos Weidner, 1941
• synonym fortis (Walker, 1869)
• synonym militaris (White, 1846)

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