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Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956

Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956: female, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1518473; 21914e80-6c69-4df8-89ae-5948768fc6c8: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518473; 21914e80-6c69-4df8-89ae-5948768fc6c8: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518473; 21914e80-6c69-4df8-89ae-5948768fc6c8: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518473; 21914e80-6c69-4df8-89ae-5948768fc6c8: Fig. 8 B. male, lateral view (holotype) (body length 20 mm, pronotum 4 mm, tegmen 3.7 mm, hind femur 11.2 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518473; 21914e80-6c69-4df8-89ae-5948768fc6c8: Fig. 8 A. male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520621; e7c56702-1165-4ba5-ba52-ccd001f0c7cf: Fig. 8 D. female, lateral view (allotype) (body length 22.5 mm, pronotum 4.2 mm, tegmen 3.9 mm, hind femur 11 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520621; e7c56702-1165-4ba5-ba52-ccd001f0c7cf: Fig. 8 C. female, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956: 123.

    Holotype; male; 21914e80-6c69-4df8-89ae-5948768fc6c8; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Zimbabwe: Umtali, Monarch Mine

  • Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956 in Kevan, 1961: 163.
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  • Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956 in Kevan, 1977: 516.
  • Afrosphena gracilis Kevan, 1956 in Otte, 1994: 99.

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. (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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