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Parasphenella meridionalis (Kevan, 1956)

Parasphenella meridionalis (Kevan, 1956): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Parasphenella meridionalis (Kevan, 1956): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Parasphenella meridionalis (Kevan, 1956): female, lateral viiew. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1518470; 77e1a209-169a-42c0-894c-5abd4100fc83: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518470; 77e1a209-169a-42c0-894c-5abd4100fc83: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518470; 77e1a209-169a-42c0-894c-5abd4100fc83: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518470; 77e1a209-169a-42c0-894c-5abd4100fc83: Fig. 5 B. female, lateral view (holotype) (body length 25.5 mm, pronotum 5.3 mm, tegmen 4.5 mm, hind femur 12.2 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518470; 77e1a209-169a-42c0-894c-5abd4100fc83: Fig. 5 B. female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Parasphenoides meridionalis Kevan, 1956: 109.

    Holotype; female; 77e1a209-169a-42c0-894c-5abd4100fc83; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Lesotho: Maluti Mountains, Nyakroesuba

  • Parasphenella meridionalis (Kevan, 1956) in Kevan, 1961: 160.
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  • Stenoscepa meridionalis (Kevan, 1956) in Johnston, 1968: 108.
  • Parasphenella meridionalis (Kevan, 1956) in Kevan, 1977: 505.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Brown, H.D. (1962) New and interesting grasshoppers from southern Africa - 3 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 25(2), 198–229. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/25/2/AJA00128789_3701
  • 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
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In 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. (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. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.

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