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species Acanthoproctus diadematus (Stål, 1858)

• Common name(s):  Skeleton Coast Thorny Katydid
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  specimen

• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Associated with dry, sparsely vegetated habitats of the Skeleton Coast, Namib Desert. Usually found on low shrubby vegetation.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (15):
  • Stål. 1858. Ofv. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. 15(6):308   >> Hetrodes diademata    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:75394
  • Stål. 1874. Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 2:22   >> Eugaster diadematus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:459578
  • Stål. 1876. Ofv. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. 33(3):58   >> Enyalius diatematus
  • Karsch. 1887. Berlin Ent. Z. 31:66   >> Acanthoproctus diadematus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:14961
  • Pictet. 1888. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 30(6):69, 73   >> Acanthoproctus diadematus
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:159   >> Aphractia diatemata
  • Caudell. 1916. Genera Insectorum 168:8   >> Aphractia diademata    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:466953
  • Péringuey. 1916. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 15(6):431   >> Aphractia diademata
  • Sjöstedt. 1933. Ark. Zool. 25A 13:5 >> Aphractia diademata
  • Weidner. 1941. Zool. Anz. 134:292, 293 >> Aphractia diademata
  • Weidner. 1955. Mitt. Hamburg. zool. Mus. Inst. 53:153 >> Aphractia diademata
  • Conti & Viglianisi. 2005. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 17(3):261-269 >> Acanthoproctus diadematus
  • Kowalski & Lakes-Harlan. 2013. Zool. Anz. 252(2):204-216   >> Acanthoproctus diadematus
  • Grohmann, Henze, Nørgaard & S.N. Gorb. 2015. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 282(1809)   >> Acanthoproctus diadematus
  • Heller, K.-G., Chobanov, Warchalowska-Sliwa & C. Hemp. 2022. Zootaxa 5120(4):472 >> Acanthoproctus diadematus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia, Kuiseb River [ad flumen Kuisip]
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

• synonym coronatus Karny, 1910
• synonym crassipes (Walker, 1869)
• synonym ibex Pictet, 1888

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