genus
Meristopteryx Saussure, 1888
Type
type species by original monotypy of
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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- 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) 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.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| species | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |