Type

Micropterus yongshengensis Dong & Wang, 2012 type species by original designation of Micropterellus Braun, 2024

Nomenclature (6)

  • Micropterus Dong & Wang, 2012 in Dong, Wang & Qin, 2012 (homonym)

    type species by original monotypy Micropterus yongshengensis Dong & Wang, 2012

  • Micropterus Dong & Wang, 2012 (homonym of Micropterus Lacepède, 1802)
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  • Micropterus Dong & Wang, 2012 (replaced by Micropterellus Braun, 2024) in Braun, 2024: 124.
  • Micropterellus Braun, 2024 in Yu, Huang, Wang, Li & Mao, 2025: 519.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Braun, H. (2024) Nomenclatural notes on a variety of Orthoptera. Zootaxa, 5453(1), 121–126. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.7
  • Dong, D.-Z., Wang, Y. & Qin, X.-Y. (2012) Tobacco harmful biological grasshoppers and a new genus new species of Yunnanitinae from Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Biological Research, 30(13), 56–58.
  • Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2023) Pyrgomorphidae Genera of the World: Key to Genera. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, Vol. 212, 1–185 pp.
  • Yu, H.-L., Huang, Z.-P., Wang, X., Li, F.-T. & Mao, B.-Y. (2025) Taxonomy of the Paramekongiella (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 5569(3), 509–520. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.6

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Referring to the strongly reduced wings and a diminutive of the replaced homonym Micropterus Dong & Wang, 2012.

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