species

Semenoviana tamerlana (Saussure, 1874)

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CollectionObject 1475709; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df: Female, pronotum, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

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Nomenclature (15)

Decticus (Platycleis) tamerlanus Saussure, 1874: 46.
Syntypes (n= 2); male; 19fbc150-81d7-45ba-a036-b7db7fde2400; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Kazakhstan: Perovsk, Syr Darya River. Syntypes (n= 2); female; bced1609-a909-4c85-a40e-1e5e2a1ef9df; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Kazakhstan: Perovsk, Syr Darya River
Platycleis tamerlana (Saussure, 1874) in Jacobson & Bianchi, 1905: 413.
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Semenoviana tamerlana (Saussure, 1874) in Massa & Fontana, 2011: 10.
Semenoviana tamerlana (Saussure, 1874) in Hollier & Heads, 2015: 319.

References (13)

Caudell, A.N. (1908) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 72, 1–43 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105244#page/339/mode/1up
de Saussure, H. (1874) Orthoptères. In: Voyage au Turkestan de A.P. Fedtschenko. Tome II, recherches zoogéographiques, Vme partie. Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. Antrop. Ethnogr. Univ. Moscou, 11, 1–52.
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Hollier, J.A. & Heads, S.W. (2015) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 6: The Rhaphidophoroidea, Stenopelmatoidea and Tettigonioidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 122(2), 307–323. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/274312#page/133/mode/1up

Jacobson, G.G. & Bianchi, V.L. (1905) Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg, i–xii, 1–952, pls 1–25. [1902]

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

Massa, B. & Fontana, P. (2011) Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837, 1–47. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02837p047.pdf

Mistshenko, L. (1937) Some data on the fauna: Blattodea, Mantodea, Phasmodea and Orthoptera of North Afghanistan. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 39, 796–811. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47591295#page/466/mode/1up

Pylnov, E. (1911) Orthoptères de la province de Semiretshje. Mantodea, Phasmatodea, Locustodea et Gryllodea. Russkoe Entomologischeskoe Obozrenie, 11, 363–373. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44809#page/401/mode/1up

Ragge, D.R. (1990) The songs of the western European bush-crickets of the genus Platycleis in relation to their taxonomy (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 59(1), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41055755#page/3/mode/1up

Ramme, W. (1951) Zur Systematik, Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren von Südost-Europa und Vorderasien. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 27, 1–431.

Tarbinsky, S.P. (1930) Neue und wenig bekannte Orthopteren des paläarktischen Asiens. IV. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 91, 324–336.

Uvarov, B.P. (1912) Contribution à la faune des orthoptères du Turkestan. Russkoe Entomologischeskoe Obozrenie, 12, 207–215. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45912#page/257/mode/1up
Zeuner, F.E. (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 91, 1–50, figs. 1–45.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Tamerlane is a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia.

Stats

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
species	1	0	6	7