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Melidia brunneri Stal 1876

Creators

  • 1. Department of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale Scienze 13, 90128 Palermo, Italy (retired) - bruno. massa @ unipa. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2127 - 0715

Description

Melidia brunneri Stål, 1876

Material examined. Mozambique: Maputo Special Reserve, West Gate, Sand Forest, MV Light Trap 13-15. II.2018, G. Laszlo, J. Mulvaney, L. Smith (2♂); Mozambique: Maputo Special Reserve, West Gate, Sand Forest, MV Light Trap 24.II.2018, G. Laszlo, J. Mulvaney, L. Smith (1♂); Mozambique: Maputo Special Reserve, West Gate, Sand Forest, Actinic Light Trap 13-15.II.2018, G. Laszlo, J. Mulvaney, L. Smith (1♂) (ANHRT); Mozambique: Maputo Special Reserve, West Gate, Sand Forest, Actinic Light Trap 21-22.II.2018, G. Laszlo, J. Mulvaney, L. Smith (2♂) (BMPC); Mozambique: Maputo Special Reserve, Ponta Milibangalala, Dune Grassland, MV Light Trap 17-21. II.2018, G. Laszlo, J. Mulvaney, L. Smith (2♂) (ANHRT).

Remarks. M. brunneri (Figs 10a, 10b, 11a, 11f, 11i) is the most widespread species of the genus Melidia in

tropical Africa, known from Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Nigeria (Ragge 1980; Naskrecki & Guta 2019).

Notes

Published as part of Massa, Bruno, 2022, New and less known Orthoptera from biodiversity hotspots of Mozambique and Zambia (Tettigoniidae; Acrididae), pp. 27-44 in Fragmenta entomologica 54 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/725, http://zenodo.org/record/8148093

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F887BAFFBCFFD622EEC05FDBA8014E

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.8148109 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.8148113 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.13133/2284-4880/725 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/8148093 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC1FFC2FFB4FFDE2279C52DD8720042 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03F887BAFFBCFFD622EEC05FDBA8014E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/230915445 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/296616/taxon/03F887BAFFBCFFD622EEC05FDBA8014E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
ANHRT , BMPC , MV
Event date
2018-02-13 , 2018-02-17 , 2018-02-21 , 2018-02-24
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Melidia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stal
Species
brunneri
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2018-02-13/15 , 2018-02-17/21 , 2018-02-21/22 , 2018-02-24
Taxonomic concept label
Melidia brunneri Stal, 1876 sec. Massa, 2022

References

  • Ragge D. R. 1980. A review of the African Phaneropterinae with open tympana (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 40: 1 - 192. http: // www. archive. org / details / bulletinofbritis 40 entolond