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Orthoptera Species File
Subgenus

Pterophylla (Pterophylla) Kirby, 1825

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Pterophylla (Pterophylla) Kirby, 1825

Nomenclature (26)

  • Pterophylla Kirby, 1825: 432.

    type species by subsequent designation Locusta camellifolia Fabricius, 1775 in Kirby, 1906

  • Thliboscelus Serville, 1838: 441.

    type species Gryllus (Tettigonia) hypericifolia Stoll, 1813

  • Pterophylla (Pterophylla) Kirby, 1825 in Otte, 1997: 251.
  • Thliboscelus Serville, 1838 (subjective synonym of Pterophylla Kirby, 1825) in Heller & Helb, 2024: 368.

References (21)

  • Kirby, W.F. (1825) Some remarks on the nomenclature of the Gryllina of MacLeay, with the characters of a new genus in that tribe. Zool. Jour., 1, 429–432. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88099#page/461/mode/1up
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314
  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kaukerfe, Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte: Vulgo Orthoptera). In Handbuch der Entomologie. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. Vol. 2, Issue I-VIII, 397–756 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25467340#page/13/mode/1up
  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1840) Audinet Serville, histoire naturelle des Orthoptéres. Paris 1839. 8. verglichen mit H. Burmeister, Handbuch d. Entomologie. II. Bd. 2. Abth. 1. Hälfte (vulgo Orthoptera). Berlin 1838. 8. vom Verfasser des Letzteren. Zeitschrift für die Entomologie, 2, 1–82. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79083#page/7/mode/1up
  • Packard, A.S., Jr. (1870) Guide to the Study of Insects: And a Treatise on Those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34031#page/9/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1890) On the employment of names proposed for genera of Orthoptera, previous to 1840. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 556–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95855#page/572/mode/1up
  • Beutenmüller, W. (1894) Descriptive catalogue of the Orthoptera found within fifty miles of New York City. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 6(Article XII), 253–316, plates V-X. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1570
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1894) The Locustidae of Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, 92–153. [1892] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8529943#page/100/mode/1up
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1895) Monographie der Pseudophylliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 45, 1–282. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MON-E-ORTH_0007_0001-0282.pdf
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico. Cambridge, Mass., 87 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogeneracla00scudrich
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1903) The Orthoptera of Indiana. Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana [Orthoptera of Indiana], 27, 123–471. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36406
  • Caudell, A.N. (1906) Class I, Hexapoda. Order XI Orthoptera. The Cyrtophylli of the United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 14, 32–44. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34022#page/44/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Caudell, A.N. (1911) Some remarks on Kirby's Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, Vol. III, with additional notes on vols. I and II. Entomological News, 22(4), 158–167. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20277#page/204/mode/1up
  • Bruner, L. (1915) Notes on tropical American Tettigonoidea (Locustodea). Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 9(3-4), 284–404. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/annalsofcarnegie09carn
  • Morgan (1925) Anatomical Record, 30.
  • Bolívar, I. & Bolívar, C. (1942) Estudio de dos nuevas Pterophylla mexicanas (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae). Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, 3 (1-4), 87–101, 3 pl.
  • Beier, M. (1960) Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae II). Das Tierreich, 74, 1–396.
  • Beier, M. (1963) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Pseudophyllinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 5, 1–246 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Heller, K.-G. & Helb, M. (2024) The tananá [Chlorocoelus hypericifolius (Stoll 1813): Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Pseudophyllinae]—re-discovered more than 150 years after the description of the male by Bates and the figuring by Darwin. Zootaxa, 5424(3), 367–376. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5424.3.5

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subgenus1045
Species4026
Subspecies502025