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Data for specimen record

Identification
Current: species Afrosphena rhodesiensis Kevan, 1956
Historical: Afrosphena rhodesiensis; allotype of species Afrosphena rhodesiensis Kevan, 1956; cited by Kevan, D.K.M. 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
Specimen
Basis of record: not specified
Counts: females 1
Depository: not recorded
Data source: not recorded
Other: no data
Locality
South Tropical Africa, Zambia: Kipundu [Chipundu]; S 12.299700, E 30.292200; Modern (is included in map)
Collecting event
January 19, 1938
Images      
female, lateral view (allotype) (body length 32 mm, pronotum 6.5 mm, tegmen 4.7 mm, hind femur 14.5 mm)
female, dorsal view - note the dissimilarity of the antennae (allotype), Fig. 9 C
Sounds      
None
Ecological relationships      
None
 

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