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species Parepistaurus nairobii Green, 1998

• Images:
• Distribution:
  •  1200–2400 m
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Submontane to montane forest and forest edges.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (5):
  • Green, S.V. 1998. Tropical Zoology 11:272   >> Parepistaurus deses nairobii    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46291
  • Hemp, C. & Kehl. 2010. Jour. Orth. Res. 19(1):31-39   >> Parepistaurus nairobii    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:46290
  • Mungai, C.N. Lange, Muriuki, Ingrisch, Oyieke, Muchai & Lampe. 2013. Bonn Zoological Bulletin Supplementum 60:94   >> Note: 12 paratypes >> Parepistaurus nairobii
  • Hemp, C., Kehl, Schultz, J.W. Wägele & A. Hemp. 2015. Systematic Ent. 40:17-34   >> Parepistaurus nairobii
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 114 >> Parepistaurus nairobii
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, East Tropical Africa, Kenya, Kimbu District, Kerita Forest
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  NMKE Nairobi

• synonym nairobii Paul, 1997

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