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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Spharagemon Scudder, 1875

Type

type species by original designation of Spharagemon Scudder, 1875

Nomenclature (26)

  • Spharagemon Scudder, 1875: 467.

    type species by original designation Gryllus equalis Say, 1825

  • Psinidia (Spharagemon) Scudder, 1875 in Stål, 1876: 46.
  • Eximacris Otte, 1984 (subjective synonym of Spharagemon Scudder, 1875) in Otte, 2009: 493.
  • Spharagemon Scudder, 1875 in Husemann, Namkung, Habel, Danley & Hochkirch, 2012

References (17)

  • Scudder, S.H. (1875) Spharagemon. A genus of Oedipodidae; with a revision of the species. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 17, 467–471. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofbos17bostuoft
  • Stål, C. (1876) Observations orthoptérologiques 2. Les genres des Acridiodées de la faune Européenne. Aperçu des genres des Acridiodées de l'Amérique du Nord. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4(5), 1–58. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49926#page/233/mode/1up
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1884) Prodromus Oedipodiorum, Insectorum ex Ordine Orthopterorum. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 28(9), 1–254, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38465
  • Beutenmüller, W. (1894) Descriptive catalogue of the Orthoptera found within fifty miles of New York City. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 6(Article XII), 253–316, plates V-X. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1570
  • 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
  • Walker, E.M. (1898) Notes on some Ontario Acridiidae (Continued from page 126). The Canadian Entomologist, 30(10), 258–263. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/canadianentomolo30ento
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1904) Notes on Orthoptera from northern and central Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 513–549. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30096#page/563/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
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
  • Otte, D. (1970) A comparative study of communicative behavior in grasshoppers. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 141, 1–168. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56385
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1983) A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 13(1), I-IV, i-xxii, 1–679.
  • Otte, D. (1984) Acrididae: Oedipodinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 2, 366 pp.
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (2009) New status for the grasshopper genus Eximacris Otte, 1984 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 135(4), 493.
  • Husemann, M., Namkung, S., Habel, J.C., Danley, P.D. & Hochkirch, A. (2012) Phylogenetic analyses of band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oedipodinae) reveal convergence of wing morphology. Zoologica Scripta, 41(5), 515–526.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1045
Species904958
Subspecies201113