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Taxa hierarchy
family
Acrididae
MacLeay, 1821
subfamily
Coptacrinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
genus
Cyphocerastis
Karsch, 1891
species
Cyphocerastis
falcifera
(Rehn, 1914)
urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46421
Images:
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial.
Specimen records
are available.
Citations (8):
Rehn, J.A.G. 1914. Wiss. Ergebn. dtsch. Zent. Afr. Exped. 1907-1908 5:120
>>
Kivuia
falcifera
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Sjöstedt. 1923. Ark. Zool. 15(6):33 >> Note: wrong species name >>
Kivuia
falcata
Sjöstedt. 1929. Ark. Zool. 20 A(15):24 >>
Kivuia
falcifera
Ramme. 1929. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 15:357 >>
Kivuia
falcifera
Dirsh. 1951. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. London (B) 20:77 >>
Cyphocerastis
falcifera
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Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 272 >>
Cyphocerastis
falcifera
Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 240 >>
Cyphocerastis
falcifera
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 92 >>
Cyphocerastis
falcifera
Type specimen information:
Type locality: Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo: lakes region
Kind of type: holotype
Specimen category: male
Status of type: damaged
Location of type: MfN
synonym
leopoldi
(Sjöstedt, 1929)
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