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genus

Parasphenula Kevan, 1956

Type

Parasphena boranensis Salfi, 1939 type species by original designation of Parasphenula Kevan, 1956

Nomenclature (8)

  • Parasphenula Kevan, 1956: 111, 115. (valid)

    type species by original designation Parasphena boranensis Salfi, 1939

  • Parasphenula Kevan, 1956 in Dirsh, 1961: 379.
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  • Parasphenula Kevan, 1956 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 110.
  • Parasphenula Kevan, 1956 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 31, 94, 163.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1961) Notes on Acridoidea of Africa, Madagascar and Asia (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 37, 379–398. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/157307
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Popov, G.B. (1997) Arabian grasshoppers (Orthoptera): Families Thericleidae (Eumastacoidea) and Pamphagidae and Pyrogomorphidae (Acridoidea). In Fauna of Saudi Arabia. Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Basel. Vol. 16, 111–168 pp.
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 pp.
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Gender, form, and etymology
Feminine
Etymology:

Derived from Parasphena Bolívar, 1884.

Parasphenula Kevan, 1956

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genus110
species1349