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Parasphenula abyssinica (Uvarov, 1934)

CollectionObject 1518445; 902c32aa-93f2-4d8b-8ec1-eadac4bfc3bb: male and female, lateral view (holotype and paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518445; 902c32aa-93f2-4d8b-8ec1-eadac4bfc3bb: male and female, lateral view (holotype and paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518445; 902c32aa-93f2-4d8b-8ec1-eadac4bfc3bb: male and female, dorsal view (holotype and paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518445; 902c32aa-93f2-4d8b-8ec1-eadac4bfc3bb: labels (holotype and paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Parasphena abyssinica Uvarov, 1934: 611.

    Holotype; male; 902c32aa-93f2-4d8b-8ec1-eadac4bfc3bb; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Ethiopia: W of Mount Zuquala, Hawash River

  • Parasphena abyssinica Uvarov, 1934 in Kevan, 1948: 112.
  • Parasphenula abyssinica (Uvarov, 1934) in Kevan, 1977: 513.
  • Stenoscepa abyssinica (Uvarov, 1934) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 141.

References (10)

  • Uvarov, B.P. (1934) Entomological expedition to Abyssinia 1926-7. Orthoptera of the families Mantidae, Gryllidae, Tettigoniidae, and Acrididae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 38, 591–614.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1948) New species of Parasphena Bolivar 1884 (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Pyrgomorphinae) from East Africa. Journal of East Africa Natural History, 19, 110–130. [1946]
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1959) A study of the genus Chrotogonus Audinet-Serville, 1839 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Pyrgomorphidae). V. A revisional monograph of the Chrotogonini. VI. The history and biogeography. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 43, 11–199.
  • 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
  • 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. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.

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