| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Thoracistus viridifer (Walker, 1869) |  
							| Historical: | Thyreonotus viridifer; syntype of species Thoracistus viridifer (Walker, 1869); cited by Walker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. 2:225-423 Thoracistus viridifer; lectotype of species Thoracistus viridifer (Walker, 1869); cited by Rentz, D.C.F. 1988. The shield-backed katydids of Southern Africa: their taxonomy, ecology and relationships to the faunas of Australia and S. America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 2(2):223-335
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				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: not specified Counts: males 1
 Depository: BMNH, London NH Mus.
 Data source: not recorded
 Other: no data
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | Southern Africa, KwaZulu-Natal: Durban, Port Natal; S 29.864828, E 31.020350; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | [no data recorded] | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  male, lateral view (lectotype) 
  male head and pronotum, dorsal view (lectotype) | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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