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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Carinisphena Kevan, 1966

Type

Carinisphena producta Kevan, 1966 type species by original designation of Carinisphena Kevan, 1966

Nomenclature (5)

  • Carinisphena Kevan, 1966: 84.

    type species by original designation Carinisphena producta Kevan, 1966

  • Carinisphena Kevan, 1966 in Kevan, 1977: 446.
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  • Carinisphena Kevan, 1966 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 131.
  • Carinisphena Kevan, 1966 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 31, 153.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1966) Some little known flightless species of Pyrgomorphidae from South Africa, with a description of a new genus and species (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 35, 79–86.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
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  • Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2023) Pyrgomorphidae Genera of the World: Key to Genera. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, Vol. 212, 1–185 pp.
  • 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.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from the similar Punctisphena Kevan, 1961, and alluding to the strongly raised median pronotal carina.

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