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Nomenclature (3)

  • Sphingonotus savignyi Saussure, 1884: 198, 208.

    Syntype; e9839462-0f3d-4b5c-abc0-764c734a925a; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Egypt

  • Sphingonotus savignyi Saussure, 1884 in Husemann, Llucià Pomares & Hochkirch, 2013: 33.
  • Sphingonotus savignyi Saussure, 1884 in Husemann, Deppermann & Hochkirch, 2014

Nomenclature references (3)

  • de Saussure, H. (1884) Prodromus Oedipodiorum, Insectorum ex Ordine Orthopterorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 28(9), 1–254, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38465
  • Husemann, M., Deppermann, J. & Hochkirch, A. (2014) Multiple independent colonization of the Canary Islands by the winged grasshopper genus Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 81, 174–181.
  • Husemann, M., Llucià Pomares, D. & Hochkirch, A. (2013) A review of the Iberian Sphingonotini with description of two novel species (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168(1), 29–60.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Named after the French zoologist Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (1777–1851) who contributed to the "Description de l'Égypte" where at Orthoptères Pl. 7 f. 13 the species is illustrated.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
species1001
subspecies2079