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Thirty-Two New South African Grasshopper Species in the Family Lentulidae Belonging to Eleven Genera (Orthoptera: Acridoidea)
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Thirty-Two New South African Grasshopper Species in the Family Lentulidae Belonging to Eleven Genera (Orthoptera: Acridoidea)

Daniel Otte
Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890), v 146(1), pp 1-164
26 Mar 2020

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
This is a progress paper on the taxonomy of eleven genera in the grasshopper family Lentulidae from South Africa. They are: Afrotettix Dirsh with eight species, six of which are new (abuntix, berupo, eduva, tinipa, frixo and rabex); Calviniacris Dirsh with one species; Atopotattix Brown with one species; Devylderia Sjostedt, with eleven species, seven of which are new (locapsa, lishe, compoti, seche, segasa, solveigae, and koenigkrameri); Karruia Rehn with three species, one of which is new (nova); Dirshidium Brown with three species, two of which are new (kado and jati); Gymnidium Karsch, with three species, one of which is new (ydiumi); Leatettix Dirsh with 18 species, eleven of which are new (carinae, lillianae, erymnita, fursti, elizabethae, cowperi, greeni, knowlesi, armstrongi, cadei and rohweri); Tsautettix Otte, with one new species (adriani); Kalaharicus Brown, with one species; and Shelfordites Karny with five species, three of which are new (lapollai, laurelae, and spearmani).

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