species

Meristopteryx rotundata (Walker, 1870)

Nomenclature (7)

Oedipoda rotundata Walker, 1870: 743.
Holotype; male; 8d45e346-a27e-4cb9-988b-811df074e2fb; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Indian Subcontinent, North Bengal
Meristopteryx rotundata (Walker, 1870) in Saussure, 1888: 53.
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Meristopteryx rotundata (Walker, 1870) in Bhowmik, 1986: 77.
Meristopteryx rotundata (Walker, 1870) in Shishodia, Chandra & Gupta, 2010: 82.

Bhowmik, H.K. (1985) Outline of distribution with an index catalogue of Indian grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Part I. Subfamilies: Acridinae, Truxalinae, Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 78, 1–51. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/occpapers/078/index.pdf
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
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Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf
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

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin for rounded, probably relating to rear margin of pronotum.

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	2	3