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Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Stål, C. (1873) Acridiodea. In Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm. Vol. 1, 153 pp. Available from http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Orthoptera
family
Acrididae
genus
Acrida
species
Acrida acuminata

Name

Synonyms
Acrida histrionica Sjöstedt, 1931
Tryxalis acuminata (Stål, 1873)
Homonyms
Acrida acuminata Stål, 1873
Common names
Common Stick Grasshopper in English
Gewone Stoksprinkaan in Afrikaans
Groengeis in Afrikaans
lehakgala in Tswana
lentloro in Tswana

Bibliographic References

  1. Dirsh & Uvarov. 1953. Preliminary diagnoses of new genera and new synonymy in Acrididae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (Tijdschr. v. Entomologie) 96:231
  2. Dirsh. 1956. In Hanstrom, Brinck & Rudebeck. Orthoptera Acridoidea. South African Animal Life; Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951 3:121-272
  3. Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea, Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London 401
  4. Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 654
  5. Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Suppl:286
  6. Kirby, W.F. 1902. List of a small collection of orthopterous insects formed by Sir Harry Johnston in British East Africa and Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with descriptions of five new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Proc. zool. Soc. London) 1902(1):95
  7. Picker, M., Griffiths & Weaving. 2005. Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa, Struik Publishers, South Africa 96
  8. Steinmann. 1963. New species of the genus Acrida L. (Orthoptera) from Africa and Asia. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (Acta Zool. Acad. Sci. Hung.) 9:403
  9. Stål. 1873. Acridiodea. Recencio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg, Stockholm 1:97
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