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genus

Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964

Type

Malagasphena minor Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964 type species by original designation of Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964

Nomenclature (7)

  • Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964: 111.

    type species by original designation Malagasphena minor Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964

  • Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964 in Johnston, 1968: 87.
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  • Malagasplena [sic] Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964 (misspelling of Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964) in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 389.
  • Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 80, 158.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Singh, A. (1964) A new genus and two new species of Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from Madagascar, with notes on the genus Geloius Saussure. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 90, 111–129.
  • Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2023) Pyrgomorphidae Genera of the World: Key to Genera. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, Vol. 212, 1–185 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.
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Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from distribution on Madagascar and ending of other generic names in Pyrgomorphidae.

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genus211
species110