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Data for specimen record

Identification
Current: species Tenerasphaga meruensis (Sjöstedt, 1910)
Historical: Plegmatoptera meruensis; syntype of species Tenerasphaga meruensis (Sjöstedt, 1910); cited by Sjöstedt. 1910[1909]. 17. Orthoptera. 6. Locustodea. In Sjöstedt [Ed.]. Abteilung 15-22. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. 3:125-148
Horatosphaga meruensis; lectotype of species Tenerasphaga meruensis (Sjöstedt, 1910); cited by Ragge. 1960. The Acrometopae of the Ethiopian Region: a revision, with notes on the sexual dimorphism shown by the group (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 8(7):269-333
Specimen
Basis of record: not specified
Counts: males 1
Depository: NHRS, Stockholm
Data source: not recorded
Other: no data
Locality
East Tropical Africa, Tanzania: Meru plains; S 3.254114, E 36.720578; Modern (is included in map)
Collecting event
January 01, 1906 to January 31, 1906
Images      
male, lateral view (lectotype)
male pronotum, lateral view (lectotype)
male, dorsal view (lectotype)
male, dorsal view (lectotype)
male, frontal view (lectotype)
male subgenital plate (lectotype)
male subgenital plate (lectotype)
male cerci (lectotype)
labels (lectotype)
Sounds      
None
Ecological relationships      
None
 

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