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Stenoscepa grandis (Kevan, 1956)

Stenoscepa grandis (Kevan, 1956): Fig. 2 A-C (after holotype). female head and thorax, dorsal (A) and lateral (B) and abdomen tip lateral (C). (Otu).
Stenoscepa grandis (Kevan, 1956): Fig. 2 A-C (after holotype). female head and thorax, dorsal (A) and lateral (B) and abdomen tip lateral (C). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1518474; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518474; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518474; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518474; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518474; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd: Fig. 2 E. female, lateral view (holotype) (body length 35 mm, pronotum 7.5 mm, hind femur 14.3 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518474; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd: Fig. 2 D. female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: Mt. Kulal

Nomenclature (7)

  • Parasphenula grandis Kevan, 1956: 109, 116.

    Holotype; female; 9c24a795-7a3c-4bf8-8a18-3d2f8cc38fdd; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: Mt. Kulal

  • Parasphenula grandis Kevan, 1956 in Kevan, 1957: 201.
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  • Stenoscepa grandis (Kevan, 1956) in Kevan, 1977: 514.
  • Stenoscepa grandis (Kevan, 1956) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 141.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • 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
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 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. (1957) Orthoptera-Caelifera from northern Kenya and Jubaland. II. Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae and Romaleinae. Opuscula Entomologica. Edidit Societas Entomologica Lundensis, 22, 193–208.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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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Stenoscepa grandis (Kevan, 1956)

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