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genus

Parasphenella Kevan, 1956

Type

Pyrgomorphella carinata Bolívar, 1904 type species by original designation of Parasphenella Kevan, 1956

Nomenclature (17)

  • Parasphenella Kevan, 1956: 111, 118. (valid)

    type species by original designation Pyrgomorphella carinata Bolívar, 1904

  • Parasphenoides Kevan, 1956: 110, 119.

    type species Parasphena dubia Bolívar, 1904

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  • Parasphenella Kevan, 1956 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 108.
  • Parasphenella Kevan, 1956 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 31, 163.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1961) Notes on Acridoidea of Africa, Madagascar and Asia (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 37, 379–398. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/157307
  • Johnsen, P. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1984) Parasphenella forchhammeri n. sp. from Tanzania (Acridoidea: Pyrgomorphidae, Pyrgomorphini). Natura Jutlandica, 21(5), 61–67.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1896) Neue Orthopteren aus dem tropischen Afrika. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 57, 242–359. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36013#page/250/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Akbar, S.S. (1963) Three new genera of flightless Pyrgomorphini erected on the basis of their phallic structures (Orth.: Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 39, 405–422. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/158411
  • 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. (1961) A new micropterous African Pyrgomorphid genus, with comments on related or superficially similar forms (Orthopt. Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 24, 154–164.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1966) Some little known flightless species of Pyrgomorphidae from South Africa, with a description of a new genus and species (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 35, 79–86.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2023) Pyrgomorphidae Genera of the World: Key to Genera. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, Vol. 212, 1–185 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • 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.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.
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Derived from Parasphena Bolívar, 1884.

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