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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Tripetalocera Westwood, 1834

Type

type species by original monotypy of Tripetalocera Westwood, 1834

Nomenclature (15)

  • Tripetalocera Westwood, 1834: 444.

    type species by original monotypy Tripetalocera ferruginea Westwood, 1834

  • Tripetalocera Westwood, 1834 in Bolívar, 1887: 310.
  • Tripetalocera Westwood, 1834 in Zheng, 2005: 14.
  • Tripetalocera Westwood, 1834 in Storozhenko, 2013: 160.

References (15)

  • Westwood, J.O. (1834) Insectorum Arachnoidumque novorum Decades duo. Zool. Jour., 5, 440–453, pl.22, Fig. 3. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88258#page/454/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1887) Essai sur les Acridiens de la tribu des Tettigidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 31, 175–313. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44636#page/675/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1890) On the employment of names proposed for genera of Orthoptera, previous to 1840. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 556–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95855#page/572/mode/1up
  • Hancock, J.L. (1907) Orthoptera Fam. Acridiidae. Subfam. Tetriginae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 48, 1–79 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105990#page/23/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1914) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London, 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1930) Fauna Sumatrensis (Bijdrage Nr. 62) Preliminary revision of the Acrididae (Orthoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 73, 1–210. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89680#page/125/mode/1up
  • Günther, K. (1938) Revision der Acrydiinae, I. Sectiones Tripetalocerae, Discotettigiae, Lophotettigiae, Cleostrateae, Bufonidae, Cladonotae, Scelimenae verae. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 23, 299–437.
  • Günther, K. (1942) Die Acrydiinae der Oxforder Universitats-Expedition nach Sarawak vom Jahre 1932. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 18, 339–346, 6 figs. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/148210
  • Blackith, R.E. (1992) Tetrigidae (Insecta; Orthoptera) of Southeast Asia: Annotated catalogue with partial translated keys and bibliography. JAPAGA, Wicklow, Ireland, i-liv, 1–248.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.
  • 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.
  • Liang, G.-qiu & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Orthoptera Tetrigoidea. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 12, i-x, 1–278.
  • Ito, G. & Mohamed, M. (2001) A preliminary report on functional morphology of 2 pygmy grasshopper species (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Nature and Human Activities, 6, 65–66.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. (2005) Fauna of the Tetrigoidea from Western China. Science Press, Beijing, 1–501 pp.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2013) Review of the subfamily Tripetalocerinae Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Zootaxa, 3718(2), 158–170.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek πέτᾰλος flat or broad and κέρας horn, relating to either only the trigonal elevation on the pronotum or all three pronotum spines, including the lateral ones.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1023