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species Tenerasphaga meruensis (Sjöstedt, 1910)

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  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  
   endemic to savanna grassland between Mt Meru and Mt Kilimanjaro
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Sjöstedt. 1910[1909]. In Sjöstedt [Ed.]. Abteilung 15-22. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt 3:130   >> Plegmatoptera meruensis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:10956
  • Ragge. 1960. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 8(7):310   >> Horatosphaga meruensis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:10955
  • Ragge. 1968. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 22(3):87   >> Horatosphaga meruensis
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 7:112 >> Horatosphaga meruensis
  • Hemp, C. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(2):259   >> Horatosphaga meruensis
  • Hemp, C. 2013. Zootaxa 3613(4):323 >> Horatosphaga meruensis
  • Hemp, C., K.-G. Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz & A. Hemp. 2018. Insect Systematics and Evolution 49(3):275 >> Tenerasphaga meruensis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:498004
  • Hemp, C. 2021. A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya 214 >> Tenerasphaga meruensis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, East Tropical Africa, Tanzania, Meru plains
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

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