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Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948

Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: female, dorsal view (Ngong Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: female, dorsal view (Ngong Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: female, lateral view (Ngong Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: female, lateral view (Ngong Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: male, lateral view (Ngong Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: male, dorsal view (Ngong Hills). (Otu).
Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: male, dorso-lateral view (Ngong Hills). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1518464; 6fd3f0b0-9bae-4a4b-a8b8-022743e1e1e1: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518464; 6fd3f0b0-9bae-4a4b-a8b8-022743e1e1e1: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518464; 6fd3f0b0-9bae-4a4b-a8b8-022743e1e1e1: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571031; 6110c9b4-90b4-49b1-bf47-15d236b3e995: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571031; 6110c9b4-90b4-49b1-bf47-15d236b3e995: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571031; 6110c9b4-90b4-49b1-bf47-15d236b3e995: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948: 112, 128-129.

    Holotype; female; 6fd3f0b0-9bae-4a4b-a8b8-022743e1e1e1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Rift Valley: valley of Ngong Hills

  • Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948 in Kevan, 1956: 113.
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  • Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948 in Mungai, Lange, Muriuki, Ingrisch, Oyieke, Muchai & Lampe, 2013
  • Parasphena ngongensis Kevan, 1948 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 105.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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
  • Paul, J. (1997) One and a half years of Kenyan Orthoptera: 2. Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae and spur-throated Acrididae. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 109, 193–198. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30062433#page/211/mode/1up
  • 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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