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genus

Afrosphenella Kevan & Akbar, 1963

Type

Pyrgomorphella capensis Key, 1937 type species by original designation of Afrosphenella Kevan & Akbar, 1963

Nomenclature (6)

  • Afrosphenella Kevan & Akbar, 1963: 416.

    type species by original designation Pyrgomorphella capensis Key, 1937

  • Afrosphenella Kevan & Akbar, 1963 in Johnston, 1968: 109.
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  • Afrosphenella Kevan & Akbar, 1963 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 38.
  • Afrosphenella Kevan & Akbar, 1963 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 31, 150.

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. & Akbar, S.S. (1963) Three new genera of flightless Pyrgomorphini erected on the basis of their phallic structures (Orth.: Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 39, 405–422. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/158411
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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.
  • 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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