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species Acanthoplus discoidalis (Walker, 1869)

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  specimen

• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Very dry, sparsely vegetated habitats, including Kalahari and Namib deserts, Succulent and Nama Karoo as well as Fynbos biomes.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (18):
  • Walker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 2:230   >> Hetrodes discoidalis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:15054
  • Karsch. 1887. Berlin Ent. Z. 31:58   >> Acanthoplus discoidalis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:15053
  • Kirby, W.F. 1899. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 7 3:142   >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Kirby, W.F. 1899. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 7 3:479   >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Péringuey. 1916. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 15(6):434   >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Uvarov. 1928. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 25(2):354   >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Weidner. 1941. Zool. Anz. 134:278, 279 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Weidner. 1955. Ent. Zeitschr. 65:201 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Weidner. 1955. Mitt. Hamburg. zool. Mus. Inst. 53:134 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Chopard. 1955. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951 2:284 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • La Greca & Messina. 1990[1989]. Animalia 16:5 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Naskrecki. 2005. The Smaller Majority 187 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Kowalski & Lakes-Harlan. 2011. Zoology 114(1):29-35 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Kowalski & Lakes-Harlan. 2013. Zool. Anz. 252(2):204-216   >> Note: misspelling >> Acanthoplus discoidales
  • Hemp, C. 2019. In Lecoq & Long Zhang [Ed.]. Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World 205-207 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Conti, G. Costa & C. Mulder. 2021. Afr. Entomol. 29(1):104-111 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Mviha, Holt & S.V. Green. 2021. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science   >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
  • Heller, K.-G., Chobanov, Warchalowska-Sliwa & C. Hemp. 2022. Zootaxa 5120(4):461 >> Acanthoplus discoidalis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym armativentris Péringuey, 1916
• synonym bechuanus Péringuey, 1916
• synonym desertorum Kirby, 1899
• synonym germanus Kirby, 1899
• synonym jallae Griffini, 1897
• synonym pallidus (Walker, 1869)
• synonym serratus Kirby, 1899

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