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Acanthoproctus diadematus

Index Acanthoproctus diadematus

Acanthoproctus diadematus (Namibia katydid) is an armoured katydid, bush-cricket, or ground cricket endemic to the Namib Desert of southern Africa, where it lives in the tall sand dunes along the Kuiseb River in Namib-Naukluft National Park. [1]

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Acanthoproctus

Acanthoproctus is a genus of katydids.

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Acanthosicyos horridus

Acanthosicyos horridus is an unusual melon that occurs only in Namibia; it is locally called naras or nara.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Carl Stål

Carl Stål (21 March 1833 – 13 June 1878) was a Swedish entomologist specialising in Hemiptera.

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Dune

In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.

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Ensifera

Ensifera is a suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies including: true crickets, camel crickets, bush crickets or katydids, grigs, wetas and Cooloola monsters.

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François Jules Pictet de la Rive

François Jules Pictet-De la Rive (27 September 180915 March 1872) was a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist.

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Francis Walker (entomologist)

Francis Walker (31 July 1809 – 5 October 1874) was an English entomologist.

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Heinrich Hugo Karny

Heinrich Hugo Karny (7 October 1886 – 7 August 1939) was an Austrian physician and entomologist who specialised in Thysanoptera and Orthoptera.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Kuiseb River

The Kuiseb River in Namibia flows from the Khomas highlands west of Windhoek to Walvis Bay.

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Namib

The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa.

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Namib-Naukluft National Park

The Namib-Naukluft National Park is a national park of Namibia encompassing part of the Namib Desert (considered the world's oldest desert) and the Naukluft mountain range.

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Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts and crickets, including closely related insects such as the katydids and wetas.

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Tettigoniidae

Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called bush crickets (in the UK), katydids (in the USA), or long-horned grasshoppers (mostly obsolete).

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Redirects here:

Acanthoproctus coronatus, Acanthoproctus ibex, Hetrodes crassipes, Hetrodes diadematus, Namibia katydid, Skeleton coast thorny katydi, Skeleton coast thorny katydid.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthoproctus_diadematus

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