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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Vittisphena Kevan, 1956

Type

Vittisphena somalica Kevan, 1956 type species by original designation of Vittisphena Kevan, 1956

Nomenclature (7)

  • Vittisphena Kevan, 1956: 111, 128.

    type species by original designation Vittisphena somalica Kevan, 1956

  • Vittisphena Kevan, 1956 in Johnston, 1968: 99.
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  • Vittisphena Kevan, 1956 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 158.
  • Vittisphena Kevan, 1956 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 30, 173.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (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.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 pp.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Latin vitta, band or ribbon, and Greek σφήν, wedge, alluding to striped and wedge-shaped body.

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