Allaga ambigua Karsch, 1896

Zanzibar giant forest grasshopper

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Last record: 1898

Rediscovered in 2013

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution

Tanzania & Zanzibar

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Karsch, F. 1896. Neue Orthopteren aus dem tropischen Afrika. Entomologische Zeitung Stettin 57: 242-356.

Other references:

Gereau, Roy E. et al. (2016). Globally threatened biodiversity of the eastern Arc Mountains and coastal forests of Kenya and Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History 105(1): 115-201.

Hochkirch, A. 2013. Allaga ambigua. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T19672436A19680875. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T19672436A19680875.en. Downloaded on 22 December 2015.

Hochkirch, A. 2020. Allaga ambigua (amended version of 2013 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T19672436A175783148. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T19672436A175783148.en. Accessed on 27 July 2022.

http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1107522

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/20285/allaga-ambigua

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