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genus

Afrosphena Kevan, 1956

Type

Parasphena picticeps Bolívar, 1904 type species of Afrosphena Kevan, 1956

Nomenclature (9)

  • Afrosphena Kevan, 1956: 110, 121. (valid)

    type species Parasphena picticeps Bolívar, 1904

  • Afrosphena Kevan, 1956 in Kevan, 1961: 163.
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  • Afrosphena Kevan, 1956 in Johnsen & Kevan, 1984: 62.
  • Afrosphena Kevan, 1956 in Otte, 1994: 99.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • 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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  • Johnsen, P. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1984) Parasphenella forchhammeri n. sp. from Tanzania (Acridoidea: Pyrgomorphidae, Pyrgomorphini). Natura Jutlandica, 21(5), 61–67.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • 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. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
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