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Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): pair (Kilimanjaro, Maua, moorland zone, 2700 m). (Otu).
Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): pair (Kilimanjaro, Maua, moorland zone, 2700 m). (Otu).
Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): pair (Kilimanjaro, Maua, moorland zone, 2700 m). (Otu).
Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): male, dorsal view. (Otu).
Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): latero-dorsal view (Kilimanjaro, moorland zone). (Otu).
Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): frontal view (Kilimanjaro, moorland zone). (Otu).
Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): Fig. 90 a. male, dorsal view. (Otu).
Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869): Fig. 90 b. epiphallus. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: female, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501060; 0ad85f6d-321e-47b6-80ea-df6733f37305, MfN 3912: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (17)

  • Sphenarium pulchripes Gerstaecker, 1869: 217.

    Holotype; female; MfN 3912; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); United Republic of Tanzania: Kilimanjaro: Mount Kilimanjaro

  • Sphenarium pulchripes Gerstaecker, 1869 in Gerstaecker, 1873: 38.
  • ... Show all ... (13)
  • Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869) in Hemp, 2009: 193.
  • Parasphena pulchripes (Gerstaecker, 1869) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 106.

Nomenclature references (17)

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  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). VI. Poecilocerinae. VII. Pyrgomorphinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 432–459. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/456/mode/1up
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Gerstaecker, A. (1869) Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. No. II. Orthoptera et Neuroptera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 35(1), 201–223. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31346#page/209/mode/1up
  • Gerstaecker, A. (1873) Die Gliedertier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. C.F. Winter'sche, Leipzig & Heidelberg, 452 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40556#page/13/mode/1up
  • Hemp, C. & Hemp, A. (2003) Saltatoria coenoses of high-altitude grasslands on Mt. Kilimanjaro Tanzania (Orthoptera: Saltatoria). Ecotropica, 9, 71–97. Available at http://www.soctropecol.eu/publications/pdf/9%201-2/Hemp,%20Hemp,%202003.pdf
  • Hemp, C. (2009) Annotated list of Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 18(2), 183–214. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.018.0207
  • 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
  • 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. (1955) E. African Blattodea, Phasmatodea and Orthoptera. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Ostafrika-Expedition 1951/52, Gruppe Lindner, Stuttgart, Nr. 5. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 5, 472–485. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/267
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • 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.
  • Schulthess, A.von (1898) Orthoptères du Pays des Somalis, recueillis par L. Robecchi-Brichetti en 1891 et par le Prince E. Ruspoli en 1892-93. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 39, 161–216. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33431#page/169/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up

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