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Nomenclature (5)

  • Parasphena meruensis zeuneri Kevan, 1956: 112.

    Holotype; male; a1c43c59-452c-467e-aab4-fac3aca5119d; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); United Republic of Tanzania: Arusha: Ngorongoro

  • Parasphena meruensis zeuneri Kevan, 1956 in Johnston, 1968: 102.
  • Parasphena meruensis zeuneri Kevan, 1956 in Hemp, Hemp & Wägele, 2009
  • Parasphena meruensis zeuneri Kevan, 1956 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 103.

References (5)

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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