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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Tessellana Zeuner, 1941

Type

type species by original designation of Tessellana Zeuner, 1941

Nomenclature (7)

  • Tessellana Zeuner, 1941: 36.

    type species by original designation Locusta tessellata Charpentier, 1825

  • Tessellana Zeuner, 1941 in Ramme, 1951: 258.
  • Tesselana [sic] Zeuner, 1941
  • Tesselana [sic] Zeuner, 1941 (misspelling of Tessellana Zeuner, 1941)

References (5)

  • 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.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 280 pp. [in Russian]
  • 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
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna, Vol. 48, 563 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from type species Tessellana tessellata.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species602329
Subspecies201517