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Species

Parasphena kinangopa Uvarov, 1938

Parasphena kinangopa Uvarov, 1938: individual from Aberdares. (Otu).
Parasphena kinangopa Uvarov, 1938: individual from Aberdares. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1540703; 7fc563be-668b-400f-acdf-9ec4a5763663: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540703; 7fc563be-668b-400f-acdf-9ec4a5763663: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540703; 7fc563be-668b-400f-acdf-9ec4a5763663: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Parasphena kinangopa Uvarov, 1938: 168.

    Holotype; male; 7fc563be-668b-400f-acdf-9ec4a5763663; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Kenya: Central: Aberdare Mountains, Mount Kinangop

  • Parasphena kinangopa Uvarov, 1938 in Johnston, 1956: 170.
  • Parasphena kinangopa Uvarov, 1938 in Mungai, Lange, Muriuki, Ingrisch, Oyieke, Muchai & Lampe, 2013
  • Parasphena kinangopa Uvarov, 1938 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 98.

References (9)

  • Uvarov, B.P. (1938) Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Othoptera. III. Acrididae. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelle Série. Série A. Zoologie, 8, 145–176.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Etymology:

Named after the type locality.

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