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Genus

Mecostethus Fieber, 1852

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Mecostethus Fieber, 1852

Nomenclature (54)

  • Mecostethus Fieber, 1852: 1. (valid)

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus alliaceus Germar, 1825 in Kirby, 1910

  • Parapleurus Fischer, 1853: 297.

    type species Gryllus alliaceus Germar, 1825

  • Mecosthetus [sic] Fieber, 1852
  • Mecosthetus [sic] Fieber, 1852 (misspelling of Mecostethus Fieber, 1852)

References (38)

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  • Fischer, L.H. (1853) Orthoptera Europaea. sumtibus G. Engelmann, Leipzig, 454 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=fV3nAAAAMAAJ
  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
  • Herman, O. (1871) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren Siebenbürgens. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften, 21, 30–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104859#page/236/mode/1up
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1882) Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren. Engelmann, Leipzig, XXXII + 466 pp., XI tab. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/publikation_volumes.php?id=35024
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1893) Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13(33), 1–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25035
  • McNeill, J. (1897) Revision of the Truxalinae of North America. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 6, 179–274. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49878#page/195/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico. Cambridge, Mass., 87 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogeneracla00scudrich
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1900) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren (Ohrwürmer und Geradflügler) von Österreich-Ungarn und Deutschland. Wien, 148 pp. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MON-E-ORTH_0004_0001-0148.pdf
  • Jacobson, G.G. (1905) Orthoptera. In Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg. pp. 6–466. [1902]
  • Bolívar, I. (1909) Observaciones sobre los Truxalinos. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 9, 285–296. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17844#page/295/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
  • Shiraki, T. (1910) Acrididen Japans. Fukuin Printing Co. Ltd., Yokohama, 89 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/acrididenjapans00shirrich
  • 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
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et dermaptères. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 3, 212 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1093568
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1924) Revised lists of species of the genera Arcyptera, Mecostethus, Parapleurus and Ramburiella (Orth. Acrid.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13, 242–248.
  • Obenberger, J. (1926) Orthoptères et Dermaptères de la République Tchécoslovaque. 1–126.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Acrididae of Central Asia [in Russian]. Expt. Plant Protect. Sta. Uzbekistan, 1927, 214 pp.
  • Miram, E. (1933) Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries: Vol. No. 38. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad.
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  • Tarbinsky, S.P. (1940) The Saltatorian Orthopterous Insects of the Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. Acad. Sci. Azyerbaidjankoi S.S.R., Moscow-Leningrad, 245 pp. [in Russian]
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  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Otte, D. (1994) Review of the genus Stethophyma Fischer (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Acridinae: Parapleurini). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2, 61–64.
  • 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.
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  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University, 390 pp.
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  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
  • Ren, B., Sun, X. & Wang, H. (2002) A new species of Mecostethus Fieb. from Jilin Province, China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of Northeast Normal University Natural Sciences Edition, 34(3), 70–72.
  • Yin, X.-C. & Wang, W. (2005) On the taxonomic system of Eurasian Oedipodidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 48(6), 949–953.
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Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1045
Species3003
Subspecies201315