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Parasphenula boranensis (Salfi, 1939)

Parasphenula boranensis (Salfi, 1939): male and female (Bale Mountains, Ethiopia). (Otu).
Parasphenula boranensis (Salfi, 1939): male and female (Bale Mountains, Ethiopia). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1506824; 033afcbe-9d86-473c-ae37-165fcc90ba97: female, lateral view (neotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506824; 033afcbe-9d86-473c-ae37-165fcc90ba97: female, dorsal view (neotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506824; 033afcbe-9d86-473c-ae37-165fcc90ba97: labels (neotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (21)

  • Parasphena boranensis Salfi, 1939: 251.

    Neotype; female; 033afcbe-9d86-473c-ae37-165fcc90ba97; deposited at: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" (MCSN); Ethiopia: Addis Ababa: Moyale

  • Parasphena iavellensis Kevan, 1948: 117.

    Holotype; female; 44a06df5-fdf6-4586-9d93-3cd3b48e353b; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Ethiopia: Addis Ababa: Yavello

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  • Stenoscepa boranensis (Salfi, 1939) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 141.
  • Stenoscepa boranensis (Salfi, 1939) in Massa, 2018: 27.

Nomenclature references (15)

  • Baccetti, B. & Hollis, D. (1966) Orthoptera–Acridoidea (Notulae orthopterologicae, XXIII). Ricerche sulla fauna della Somalia promosse dall’Istituto di Zoologia e dal Museo Zoologico dell’Universita di Firenze: XXVI. Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento, 74, 273–284. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03749444.1966.10736745
  • 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
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • 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]
  • 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. (1957) Orthoptera-Caelifera from northern Kenya and Jubaland. II. Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae and Romaleinae. Opuscula Entomologica. Edidit Societas Entomologica Lundensis, 22, 193–208.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1961) A new micropterous African Pyrgomorphid genus, with comments on related or superficially similar forms (Orthopt. Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 24, 154–164.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1975) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth.: Acridoidea). Part VI. (Conclusion). Tribes Pyrgomorphini and Chrotogonini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 49, 131–218. [1973] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/165215
  • Massa, B. (2018) Orthoptera collected during the expedition "Ethiopia, 100 years after Vittorio Bottego" and preserved in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria" of Genoa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 111, 24–42.
  • Mungai, M.N., Lange, C.N., Muriuki, J.M., Ingrisch, S., Oyieke, H., Muchai, M. & Lampe, K.-H. (2013) Type specimens of the insect orders Orthoptera, Blattodea and Dermaptera in the collection of the National Museums of Kenya. Bonn Zoological Bulletin, Supplementum(60), 93–97. Available at http://archive.org/details/biostor-228364
  • 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.
  • Salfi, M. (1939) Orthoptera, Blattisae, Gryllide, Phasgonuridae, Phasmidae, Acrididae. Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana, 3(2), 243–256.

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