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Afrosphena picticeps (Bolívar, 1904)

Afrosphena picticeps (Bolívar, 1904): as Afrosphena picticeps. male, lateral view. (Otu).
Afrosphena picticeps (Bolívar, 1904): as Afrosphena picticeps. male, lateral view. (Otu).
Afrosphena picticeps (Bolívar, 1904): as Afrosphena vitatta. male, lateral view. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1535549; 18ad5253-ffa9-4f73-8d45-c8434a3ee69f: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535549; 18ad5253-ffa9-4f73-8d45-c8434a3ee69f: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535549; 18ad5253-ffa9-4f73-8d45-c8434a3ee69f: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535549; 18ad5253-ffa9-4f73-8d45-c8434a3ee69f: Fig. 6 B. male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1535549; 18ad5253-ffa9-4f73-8d45-c8434a3ee69f: Fig. 6 A. male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (16)

  • Parasphena picticeps Bolívar, 1904: 441.

    Holotype; male; 18ad5253-ffa9-4f73-8d45-c8434a3ee69f; deposited at: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN);

  • Parasphena picticeps Bolívar, 1904 in Kirby, 1910: 321.
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  • Afrosphena picticeps (Bolívar, 1904) in Kevan, 1977: 516.
  • Afrosphena picticeps (Bolívar, 1904) in Otte, 1994: 99.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). VI. Poecilocerinae. VII. Pyrgomorphinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 432–459. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/456/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
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  • 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.
  • 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. (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.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Miller, N.C.E. (1932) New African Acrididae in the collection of the British Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 80, 19–45.
  • 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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