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genus

Meristopteryx Saussure, 1888

Type

Oedipoda rotundata Walker, 1870 type species by original monotypy of Meristopteryx Saussure, 1888

Nomenclature (7)

  • Meristopteryx Saussure, 1888: 20, 52.

    type species by original monotypy Oedipoda rotundata Walker, 1870

  • Meristopteryx Saussure, 1888 in Kirby, 1910: 242.
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  • Meristopteryx Saussure, 1888 in Otte, 1995: 432.
  • Meristopteryx Saussure, 1888 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 415.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Bhowmik, H.K. (1986) Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr., 14, 1–192. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/tcm/014/index.pdf
  • de Saussure, H. (1888) Additamenta ad Prodromum Oedipodiorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 30(1), 1–180. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50100#page/71/mode/1up
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  • 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) In Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London. 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek μερίζω, devide, and πτερῠ́ξ, wing, alluding to wings divided into compartments.

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