| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Afrosphenella capensis (Key, 1937) |  
							| Historical: | Pyrgomorphella capensis; holotype of species Afrosphenella capensis (Key, 1937); cited by Key. 1937. New Acrididae from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum. 32:135-167, 5 pls. 2 figs. |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: not specified Counts: males 1
 Depository: BMNH, London NH Mus.
 Data source: not recorded
 Other: no data
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | Southern Africa, Cape Province: Cape Flats; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | [no data recorded] | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  male, dorsal view (holotype) 
  labels (holotype) 
  male, lateral view (holotype) | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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