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Stenoscepa maxima (Kevan, 1948)

CollectionObject 1518475; dcb473f7-ffd8-4136-8216-264a74bd731f: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518475; dcb473f7-ffd8-4136-8216-264a74bd731f: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518475; dcb473f7-ffd8-4136-8216-264a74bd731f: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518475; dcb473f7-ffd8-4136-8216-264a74bd731f: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571107; 6019cabd-a0c5-4138-ab7d-0e0baa6ffef1: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571107; 6019cabd-a0c5-4138-ab7d-0e0baa6ffef1: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1571107; 6019cabd-a0c5-4138-ab7d-0e0baa6ffef1: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; dcb473f7-ffd8-4136-8216-264a74bd731f; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: Mt. Marsabit

Nomenclature (10)

  • Parasphena maxima Kevan, 1948: 113, 115-117.

    Holotype; female; dcb473f7-ffd8-4136-8216-264a74bd731f; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Kenya: Eastern: Mt. Marsabit

  • Parasphena maxima Kevan, 1948 in Johnston, 1956: 170.
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  • Stenoscepa maxima (Kevan, 1948) in Mungai, Lange, Muriuki, Ingrisch, Oyieke, Muchai & Lampe, 2013
  • Stenoscepa maxima (Kevan, 1948) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 141.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1948) New species of Parasphena Bolivar 1884 (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Pyrgomorphinae) from East Africa. Journal of East Africa Natural History, 19, 110–130. [1946]
  • 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.
  • Mungai, M.N., Lange, C.N., Muriuki, J.M., Ingrisch, S., Oyieke, H., Muchai, M. & Lampe, K.-H. (2013) Type specimens of the insect orders Orthoptera, Blattodea and Dermaptera in the collection of the National Museums of Kenya. Bonn Zoological Bulletin, Supplementum(60), 93–97. Available at http://archive.org/details/biostor-228364
  • 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 maxima (Kevan, 1948)

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