Skip to main content
Orthoptera Species File
Species

Merehana gharrei Kevan, 1957

Nomenclature (5)

  • Merehana gharrei Kevan, 1957: 204.

    Holotype; male; c27a821b-0d9c-4756-bfe2-e089f916fdf4; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: North-Eastern: Mandera District, Finno

  • Merehana gharrei Kevan, 1957 in Dirsh, 1965: 218.
  • Merehana gharrei Kevan, 1957 in Ritchie, 1982: 175.
  • Merehana gharrei Kevan, 1957 in Rowell & Hemp, 2018: 142.

References (5)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1957) Orthoptera-Caelifera from northern Kenya and Jubaland. II. Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae and Romaleinae. Opuscula Entomologica. Edidit Societas Entomologica Lundensis, 22, 193–208.
  • Ritchie, J.M. (1982) New and little-known Acridoidea (Insecta, Orthoptera) from Somalia. 1. The genus Merehana Kevan and its taxonomic affinities, with a redefinition of the Shelforditinae. Monitore zoologico italiano (N.S.), Suppl. 17(6), 171–181. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03749444.1982.10736664
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2018) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 3. Acrididae: Catantopinae. 224 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001