genus
Afrotridactylus Günther, 1994
Type
Tridactylus madecassus Saussure, 1896 type species by original designation of Afrotridactylus Günther, 1994
Nomenclature (4)
- Afrotridactylus Günther, 1994: 263, 265.
type species by original designation Tridactylus madecassus Saussure, 1896
- Afrotridactylus Günther, 1994 in Günther, 1995: 227.
- Afrotridactylus Günther, 1994 in Otte, 1997: 150.
- Afrotridactylus Günther, 1994 in Gerlach & Haas, 2008: 64.
Nomenclature references (4)
- Gerlach, J. & Haas, F. (2008) Orthopteroidea of the Seychelles Islands. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 88 pp.
- Günther, K.K. (1994) Afrotridactylus gen. n., eine neue afrikanische Gattung der Familie Tridactylidae, einschliesslich der Beschreibung neuer Arten (Orthoptera, Tridactyloidea). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 41(2), 261–298.
- Günther, K.K. (1995) Die Tridactyloidea des südlichen Afrikas (Orthopera, Caelifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 42(2), 213–286.
- Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 6. Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and Addenda to OSF Vols. 1-5. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 261 pp.
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Derived from distribution in Africa and the name of the type genus of the family.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 7 | 0 | 6 | 13 | |
| subspecies | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |