genus
Ancistrocercus Beier, 1954
Type
Meroncidius circumdatus Walker, 1870 type species by original designation of Ancistrocercus Beier, 1954
Nomenclature (2)
- Ancistrocercus (Ancistrocercus) Beier, 1954: 456.
type species by original designation Meroncidius circumdatus Walker, 1870
- Ancistrocercus (Ancistrocercus) Beier, 1954 in Beier, 1962: 395.
Nomenclature references (2)
- Beier, M. (1954) Revision der Pseudophyllinen. Instituto Español de Entomología, Madrid, 479 pp.
- Beier, M. (1962) Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae I). Das Tierreich, 73, 1–468.
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
From Greek ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον, fishhook, relating to the hook-shaped male cerci.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| subgenus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| species | 15 | 0 | 27 | 42 | |