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Stenoscepa obscura (Kevan, 1962)

CollectionObject 1527163; 0bf6dde2-71e8-4762-aaf7-e7eed2bafe88: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1527163; 0bf6dde2-71e8-4762-aaf7-e7eed2bafe88: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1527163; 0bf6dde2-71e8-4762-aaf7-e7eed2bafe88: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1527163; 0bf6dde2-71e8-4762-aaf7-e7eed2bafe88: female, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1597974; e949e730-2b21-4ef2-9da8-0c6e312d9893: male, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1597974; e949e730-2b21-4ef2-9da8-0c6e312d9893: male, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1597974; e949e730-2b21-4ef2-9da8-0c6e312d9893: male, labels (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 0bf6dde2-71e8-4762-aaf7-e7eed2bafe88; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences (CASC); Zambia: Northern: NE Northern Rhodesia, Abercorn [Mbala]

Nomenclature (7)

  • Parasphenula obscura Kevan, 1962: 235.

    Holotype; female; 0bf6dde2-71e8-4762-aaf7-e7eed2bafe88; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences (CASC); Zambia: Northern: NE Northern Rhodesia, Abercorn [Mbala]

  • Parasphenula obscura Kevan, 1962 in Rentz, 1965: 60.
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  • Stenoscepa obscura (Kevan, 1962) in Kevan, 1977: 503.
  • Stenoscepa obscura (Kevan, 1962) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 141.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • 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.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1962) Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) collected in Africa by E. S. Ross and R. E. Leech, 1957-1958, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 31, 227–248. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53423#page/239/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1975) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth.: Acridoidea). Part VI. (Conclusion). Tribes Pyrgomorphini and Chrotogonini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 49, 131–218. [1973] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/165215
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1965) Type specimens of Orthoptera in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences to 1965. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 33(3), 59–64. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84615#page/71/mode/1up
  • 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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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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