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Afrosphena rhodesiensis Kevan, 1956

CollectionObject 1479342; bc5a64f9-72f1-4044-a6d7-6dd580c4de6b: female, lateral view (allotype) (body length 32 mm, pronotum 6.5 mm, tegmen 4.7 mm, hind femur 14.5 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1479342; bc5a64f9-72f1-4044-a6d7-6dd580c4de6b: female, lateral view (allotype) (body length 32 mm, pronotum 6.5 mm, tegmen 4.7 mm, hind femur 14.5 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1479342; bc5a64f9-72f1-4044-a6d7-6dd580c4de6b: Fig. 9 C. female, dorsal view - note the dissimilarity of the antennae (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518479; a796cadd-62a5-4ec1-984b-31bd8a8ba196: Fig. 9 B. male, lateral view (holotype) (length 22.5 mm, pronotum 5 mm, tegmen 3.9 mm, hind femur 13.4 mm). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1518479; a796cadd-62a5-4ec1-984b-31bd8a8ba196: Fig. 9 A. male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Afrosphena rhodesiensis Kevan, 1956: 124.

    Holotype; male; a796cadd-62a5-4ec1-984b-31bd8a8ba196; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Zambia: Central: Kipundu [Chipundu]

  • Afrosphena rhodesiensis Kevan, 1956 in Kevan, 1961: 163.
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  • Afrosphena rhodesiensis Kevan, 1956 in Kevan, 1977: 517.
  • Afrosphena rhodesiensis Kevan, 1956 in Otte, 1994: 100.

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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  • 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. (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.
  • 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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