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Afrosphenella capensis (Key, 1937)

CollectionObject 1518454; 1410885e-aa7f-46ff-93e0-db80e7ec820e: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518454; 1410885e-aa7f-46ff-93e0-db80e7ec820e: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518454; 1410885e-aa7f-46ff-93e0-db80e7ec820e: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518454; 1410885e-aa7f-46ff-93e0-db80e7ec820e: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1569235; 509b57b3-5580-4b0c-80f6-01a2c5d437ae: female, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1569235; 509b57b3-5580-4b0c-80f6-01a2c5d437ae: female, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1569235; 509b57b3-5580-4b0c-80f6-01a2c5d437ae: labels (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Pyrgomorphella capensis Key, 1937: 150.

    Holotype; male; 1410885e-aa7f-46ff-93e0-db80e7ec820e; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Cape Flats

  • Pyrgomorphella capensis Key, 1937 in Rehn, 1953: 129.
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  • Afrosphenella capensis (Key, 1937) in Johnston, 1968: 109.
  • Afrosphenella capensis (Key, 1937) in Kevan, 1977: 517.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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.
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  • 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
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Key, K.H.L. (1937) New Acrididae from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 135–167, 5 pls. 2 figs.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1953) Records and descriptions of Pyrgomorphinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae), with critical notes on certain genera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 79(3), 99–150.

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