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Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910

Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910: male (Tanzania, Kidia, 1800 m). (Otu).
Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910: male (Tanzania, Kidia, 1800 m). (Otu).
Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910: male (Tanazania, Kidia, 1800 m). (Otu).
Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910: female (Tanzania, southern slope of Kilimajaro, Machame, Nkweseko). (Otu).
Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910: as P. meruensis. female, lateral view. (Otu).
Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910: male, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1571027; 7c3b4982-497f-4a4e-9034-045a640e2d68: male, lateral view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571027; 7c3b4982-497f-4a4e-9034-045a640e2d68: male, dorsal view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571027; 7c3b4982-497f-4a4e-9034-045a640e2d68: labels (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (11)

  • Parasphena meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910: 177.
  • Parasphena meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910 in Johnston, 1956: 170.
  • Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910 in Hemp, 2009: 193.
  • Parasphena meruensis meruensis Sjöstedt, 1910 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 102.

References (11)

  • 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
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 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.
  • 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., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1975) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth.: Acridoidea). Part VI. (Conclusion). Tribes Pyrgomorphini and Chrotogonini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 49, 131–218. [1973] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/165215
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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
  • 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.

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