Rhachitopis crassus Walker 1870
- Dataset
- Review of South African Euryphyminae
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Baissogryllidae
- genus
- Rhachitopis
- species
- Rhachitopis crassus
description
(Figs. 3 D, 4 C, 16)
distribution
Distribution. This species was previously recorded from South Africa (Walker 1870; Uvarov 1922; Dirsh 1956 a; Brown 1962; Naskrecki 1992) and Namibia (Sjostedt 1932; Naskrecki 1995).
materials_examined
Type locality. Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa. No type examined. Material. SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: 20 miles west of Hopetown (S 29.6578, E 23.7517) 27. i. 1930 coll. K. Munro — 2 ♂, 2 ♀ (ANSP); 40 mi. E. of Calvinia, S 31.44085, E 20.43228, 18 Mar. 1939 coll. E. R. Helwig — 21 ♂, 4 ♀ (ANSP); 50 mi E of Pofadder (S 29.1284, E 20.2247) 18. iii. 1958 coll. G. van Son — 1 ♀; Free State: Bloemfontein (S 29.1177, E 26.2178) 06. v. 1919 coll. Ch. K. Brain — 2 ♂, 2 ♀ (USTB); Mpumalanga: De La Rey (S 25.8688, E 29.2238) i. 1917 coll. Dr. Brauns — 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (Transvaal Museum); Fraserburg (S 31.9131, E 21.5140) 19. v. 1939 coll. E. R. Helwig — 1 (ANSP) ♂; Eastern Cape: Great Fish River Game Reserve, Buffalo Camp North (S 32.9029, E 26.7879) 02. vi. 2001 coll. M. Pareja — 5 (Trasnsvaal Museum) ♀; Herbert (S 29.6589, E 24.6635) 15. v. 1919, — 1 ♂, 3 ♀ (ANSP); Hopetown (S 29.6196, E 24.0869) 27. i. 1930 — 2 ♂, 2 ♀ (ANSP); Kimberley (S 28.7432, E 24.7662) — 1 (ANSP) ♂; Western Cape: Middleburg (S 31.5069, E 25.0172) 07. iv. 1955 coll. D. H. Botha — 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (ANSP); Mynfontein Farm, 20 mi S of de Aar (S 30.9211, E 23.9250) 10. vi. 1971 coll. A. Strydom — 1 ♀ (Transvaal Museum); Prieska (S 29.7175, E 22.7433) v. 1973 — 2 ♀; Putzonderwater (S 29.2348, E 21.8731) 18. iii. 1958 coll. G. van Son — 2 ♂, 6 ♀; Richmond (S 29.8913, E 30.2563) 09. iv. 1939 — 1 ♀; Western Cape: Stellenbosch (S 33.9346, E 18.8592) 13. iv. 1940 — 3 ♀ (USTB); Twee Rivieren, S. Kalahari, Auob River (S 26.4730, E 20.5779) 11. ii. 1958 coll. G. van Son — 5 ♀ (Transvaal Museum); Willowmore (S 33.2842, E 23.4925) xii. 1917, — 1 ♀ (Transvaal Museum).
Name
- Homonyms
- Rhachitopis crassus Walker 1870