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Eomorphopus purpurascens (Olivier, 1791) (Nomen dubium)

Nomenclature (6)

  • Acrydium purpurascens Olivier, 1791: 234. (nomen dubium in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 260 and Cadena-Castañeda, Silva, Mendes, Pereira, Domenico & Sperber, 2020: 51)

    Syntype; 13f78418-1c29-47c5-a393-cd07278a319a;

  • Tettix purpurascens (Olivier, 1791) in Thomas, 1873: 244.
  • Eomorphopus purpurascens (Olivier, 1791) in Cadena-Castañeda, Silva, Mendes, Pereira, Domenico & Sperber, 2020: 51.
  • Eomorphopus purpurascens (Olivier, 1791) in Tumbrinck, 2026: 431.

References (7)

  • Olivier, G.-A. (1791) Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. In Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes. Paris. Vol. 6. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=8IIPAAAAQAAJ
  • Thomas, C. (1873) Part II: Acrididae of North America not found in the United States. In Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 5, pp. 191–262. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18502#page/207/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1901) Alphabetical index to North American Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 6, 1–436. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31824#page/15/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Silva, D.S.M., Mendes, D.M.de M., Pereira, M.R., de Domenico, F.C. & Sperber, C.F. (2020) Review of the tribe Amorphopini (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae): Pygmy moss-lichen tetrigids from the Amazon rainforest. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 1, 45–62. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/33717/
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., Infante, I.C., Silva, D.S.M. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa, 5597(1), 1–265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5597.1.1
  • Tumbrinck, J. (2026) Review of all Tetrigidae species described from 1758 to 1886. Zootaxa, 5845(3), 401–455. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.1

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1034