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genus

Prosphena Bolívar, 1884

Type

Prosphena scudderi Bolívar, 1884 type species by original monotypy of Prosphena Bolívar, 1884

Nomenclature (9)

  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884: 446.

    type species by original monotypy Prosphena scudderi Bolívar, 1884

  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884 in Rehn, 1951: 243.
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  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884 in Rowell, 2013: 53.
  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 16, 166.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1978) The American Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 36(1-4), 3–28. [1977] Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/41722
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Singh, A. & Akbar, S.S. (1964) A revision of the Mexican Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). I. Genera other than Sphenarium. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 116, 231–298.
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1951) The tribal position of certain genera of the Pyrgomorphinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomological News, 62(8), 241–244. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20188#page/283/mode/1up
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.
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Life zone and ecology data

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Gender, form, and etymology
Feminine
Etymology:

Derived from group Sphenariae Bolívar, 1884 (based on Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845).

Prosphena Bolívar, 1884

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genus110
species211