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Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948

Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948: male (Kenya, Chyulu Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948: male (Kenya, Chyulu Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948: female. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1518460; 39bfeb95-e549-4e02-b460-f2c0c50ff547: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518460; 39bfeb95-e549-4e02-b460-f2c0c50ff547: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518460; 39bfeb95-e549-4e02-b460-f2c0c50ff547: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571014; 52612728-1c17-4360-86a0-c713a75183c8: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571014; 52612728-1c17-4360-86a0-c713a75183c8: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571014; 52612728-1c17-4360-86a0-c713a75183c8: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948: 111, 125-126.

    Holotype; female; 39bfeb95-e549-4e02-b460-f2c0c50ff547; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: Chyulu Hills

  • Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948 in Kevan, 1956: 113.
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  • Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948 in Mungai, Lange, Muriuki, Ingrisch, Oyieke, Muchai & Lampe, 2013
  • Parasphena chyuluensis Kevan, 1948 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 92.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
  • Hemp, C., Hemp, A. & Wägele, J.W. (2009) Description of a new species of Parasphena Bolivar, 1884 (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) from northwestern Tanzania and new data on the biogeography, coenology, habitat and morphology of the genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 18(1), 113–119. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.018.0114
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  • 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. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.

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