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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Squamiana Zeuner, 1941

Type

type species by original designation of Squamiana Zeuner, 1941

Nomenclature (9)

  • Squamiana Zeuner, 1941: 34.

    type species by original designation Platycleis squamiptera Uvarov, 1912

  • Squamiana Zeuner, 1941 in Ramme, 1951: 258, 375.
  • Platycleis (Squamiana) Zeuner, 1941 in Ünal, 2006: 175.
  • Squamiana Zeuner, 1941 in Massa & Fontana, 2011: 13.

References (9)

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Colless, D.H. (1990) A classification of the shield-backed katydids (Tettigoniinae) of the world. In Tettigoniidae: Biology, Systematics and Evolution. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 352–377.
  • Sergeev, M.G. (1992) Distribution patterns of Orthoptera in North and Central Asia. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 1, 14–24.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Çıplak, B., Heller, K.-G. & Demirsoy, A. (2002) Review and key to species of Platycleis from Turkey (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with descriptions of Yalvaciana subgen. n. and two new species. Journal of Natural History, 36 (2), 197–236.
  • Ünal, M. (2006) Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from Turkey and the Middle East. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 132(1-2), 157–203.
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from type species Platycleis squamiptera.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species1302639