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species Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781)

• Common name(s):  Giant Green Slantface
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (14):
  • Fabricius. 1781. Species Insectorum 1:352   >> Truxalis conicus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:52530
  • Fabricius. 1787. Mantissa insectorvm sistens eorvm species nvper detectas adiectis characteribvs genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibvs, observationibvs. Tom. I. 231   >> Truxalis conicus
  • Gmelin. 1790. Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae 1(4):2056   >> Gryllus (Acrida) conicus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:464926
  • Thunberg. 1827. Nova Acta Upsal. 9:87   >> Truxalis conicus
  • Stål. 1873. Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1:98   >> Acrida conica    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:52529
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):95   >> Acrida conica
  • Bruner, L. 1915. Univ. Stud., Lincoln (NE) 15(2):251 [57]   >> Acrida conica
  • Uvarov. 1925[1924]. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 72(3-4):266 >> Note: synonym >> Acrida turrita
  • Dirsh & Uvarov. 1953. Tijdschr. v. Entomologie 96:232   >> Acrida conica
  • Dirsh. 1954. Bull. Soc. Fouad 1er d'Ent. 38:158 >> Acrida conica
  • Key. 1959. Biogeography & Ecology Australia 205 >> Acrida conica
  • Key. 1986. CSIRO Entomol. Tech. Paper 24:30 >> Acrida conica
  • Rentz, D.C.F. 1996. Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia 177, Pl. 242 >> Acrida conica
  • Rentz, D.C.F., R.C. Lewis, Y. Su & Upton [Ed.]. 2003. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts 348, 392 >> Acrida conica
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym cheesmanae Dirsh, 1954
• synonym raflesii (Blanchard, 1853)
• synonym scitula (Walker, 1870)

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