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Parasphena keniensis rehni Kevan, 1956

Parasphena keniensis rehni Kevan, 1956: male (Kenya, Kikuyu Escarpment, Limuru). (Otu).
Parasphena keniensis rehni Kevan, 1956: male (Kenya, Kikuyu Escarpment, Limuru). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1518466; 287076c9-cbdd-4b23-8e1d-e7c56a4ce0c2: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518466; 287076c9-cbdd-4b23-8e1d-e7c56a4ce0c2: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518466; 287076c9-cbdd-4b23-8e1d-e7c56a4ce0c2: female, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Parasphena keniensis rehni Kevan, 1956: 113. (valid)

    Holotype; female; 287076c9-cbdd-4b23-8e1d-e7c56a4ce0c2; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Central: Mount Kenya

  • Parasphena keniensis rehni Kevan, 1956 (synonym of Parasphena keniensis Sjöstedt, 1912) in Johnston, 1956: 169.
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  • Parasphena keniensis rehni Kevan, 1956 in Mungai, Lange, Muriuki, Ingrisch, Oyieke, Muchai & Lampe, 2013
  • Parasphena keniensis rehni Kevan, 1956 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 97.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • 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.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • 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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