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Afrosphena fusiformis Kevan, 1956

CollectionObject 1518472; 53598579-4ba7-4fbf-85aa-b737d52238bf: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518472; 53598579-4ba7-4fbf-85aa-b737d52238bf: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518472; 53598579-4ba7-4fbf-85aa-b737d52238bf: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518472; 53598579-4ba7-4fbf-85aa-b737d52238bf: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518472; 53598579-4ba7-4fbf-85aa-b737d52238bf: Fig. 7 B. male, lateral view (holotype) (body length 24 mm, pronotum 5.1 mm, tegmen 3.8 mm, hind femur 12.5 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518472; 53598579-4ba7-4fbf-85aa-b737d52238bf: Fig. 7 A. male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520620; dec996d2-91d0-48b0-876a-0ab568d7324f: Fig. 7 D. female, lateral view (allotype) (body length 30 mm, pronotum 6.3 mm, tegmen 4.5 mm, hind femur 13.5 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520620; dec996d2-91d0-48b0-876a-0ab568d7324f: Fig. 7 C. female, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Afrosphena fusiformis Kevan, 1956: 109, 121.

    Holotype; male; 53598579-4ba7-4fbf-85aa-b737d52238bf; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); United Republic of Tanzania: Dodoma: Mpwapwa, Kibariani Mountains

  • Stenoscepa fusiformis (Kevan, 1956) in Dirsh, 1961: 384.
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  • Stenoscepa fusiformis (Kevan, 1956) in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 141.
  • Stenoscepa furiformes [sic] (Kevan, 1956) (misspelling of Afrosphena fusiformis Kevan, 1956)

Nomenclature references (8)

  • 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. & Forchhammer, P. (1975) Checklist of the Acridomorpha of Tanzania (Insecta: Orthoptera). Natura Jutlandica, 18, 26–52.
  • 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. (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.
  • 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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Etymology:

Alluding to fusiform body.

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