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species Melidia brunneri Stål, 1876

• Common name(s):  Brunner's Melidia
• Images: (19) See all images

  specimen

• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Montane, tropical and subtropical grassland, savanna and shrubland.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (12):
  • Stål. 1876. Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 4(5):60   >> Melidia brunneri    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:12066
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1878. Monographie der Phaneropteriden 218   >> Melidia brunneri
  • Karsch. 1889[1888]. Berlin Ent. Z. 32:419   >> Melidia brunneri
  • Krauss. 1901. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 51:291   >> Melidia brunneri
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:437   >> Melidia brunneri
  • Chopard. 1955. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951 2:270 >> Melidia brunneri
  • Holstein & Ingrisch. 2004. Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. Ser. A 4 >> Note: specimens erroneously labelled as types >> Melinda brunneri    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:12067
  • Picker, M., Griffiths & Weaving. 2005. Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa 80 >> Melidea brunneri    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:12068
  • Massa. 2015. ZooKeys 472:89   >> Note: comparison with M. claudiae >> Melidia brunneri
  • Naskrecki & Guta. 2019. Zootaxa 4682(1):67 >> Melidia brunneri
  • Massa. 2021. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 57(1):50 >> Melidia brunneri
  • Massa. 2022. Fragmenta Entomologica 54(1):35   >> Melidia brunneri
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia, Damaraland
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

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