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Data for specimen record

Identification
Current: species Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956
Historical: Afrosphena gracilis; holotype of species Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956; cited by Kevan, D.K.M. 1956. Flightless African genera of pyrgomorphine grasshoppers allied, or superficially similar, to Parasphena I. Bolivar, 1884, and Pyrgomorphella I. Bolivar, 1904, with description of certain new forms. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. 29:109-133
Specimen
Basis of record: not specified
Counts: males 1
Depository: BMNH, London NH Mus.
Data source: not recorded
Other: no data
Locality
South Tropical Africa, Zimbabwe: Umtali, Monarch Mine; Modern (is included in map)
Collecting event
April 05, 1945; N.C.E. Miller
Images      
male, lateral view (holotype) (body length 20 mm, pronotum 4 mm, tegmen 3.7 mm, hind femur 11.2 mm), Fig. 8 B
male, dorsal view (holotype), Fig. 8 A
male, lateral view (holotype)
male, dorsal view (holotype)
labels (holotype)
Sounds      
None
Ecological relationships      
None
 

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