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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Acrotylus Fieber, 1853

burrowing grasshoppers

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Acrotylus Fieber, 1853

Nomenclature (39)

  • Acrotylus Fieber, 1853: 125.

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus insubricus Scopoli, 1786 in Kirby, 1910

  • Acrotylus Fieber, 1853 in Bolívar, 1876: 361.
  • Acrotylus Fieber, 1853 in Defaut & Morichon, 2015: 510.
  • Acrotylus Fieber, 1853 in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 94.

References (39)

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  • Bolívar, I. (1876) Sinopsis de los Ortópteros de España y Portugal. Segunda parte. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 5, 259–372. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1128
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  • 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]
  • Azam, J. (1907) Sur les Acrotyles d'Europe. Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques et archéologiques de Draguignan, 25, 51–58.
  • 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
  • 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
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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]
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) The Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Madagascar II. Acrididae, Acridinae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 13, 245–286. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/102952#page/383/mode/1up
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
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  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
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  • Defaut, B. (1982) La détermination des espèces marocaines du genre Acrotylus Fieber (Orthopteroidea, Caelifera). Bulletin de l'Institut scientifique, Rabat, 6, 119–124.
  • Johnsen, P. & Schmidt, G.H. (1982) Notes on, and a check-list of Acridoidea (Saltatoria) collected in Somalia (East Africa). Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento, 16(3), 69–119.
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  • Baccetti, B. & Capra, F. (1988) Notulae orthopterologicae. 46. Revisione delle specie mediterranee del gen. Acrotylus Fieb. Redia, 71(2), 565–588.
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  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Schmidt, G.H. (1996) Verbreitung, Phänologie und syntopes Auftreten der Acrotylus-Arten auf der Iberischen Halbinsel (Orthopteroidea: Caelifera: Acrididae). Articulata, 11, 15–31. Available at http://dgfo-articulata.de/downloads/articulata/articulata_XI_1996/schmidt_1996.pdf
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  • Adeel, S., Shah, A., Suhail, A., Arshad, M., Tayyib, M., Asghar, M. & Azadar Hussain Naqvi, S. (2008) Comparative studies on the external morphology of three species of the genus Acrotylus Fieber (Orthoptera). International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, 10(3), 267–272. Available at http://www.fspublishers.org/ijab/past-issues/IJABVOL_10_NO_3/5.pdf
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  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.

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
Genus1001
Species4403478
Subspecies802331