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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Meloscirtus Bruner, 1906

Type

type species by original designation of Meloscirtus Bruner, 1906

Nomenclature (7)

  • Meloscirtus Bruner, 1906: 634.

    type species by original designation Meloscirtus australis Bruner, 1906

  • Meloscirtus Bruner, 1906 in Kirby, 1910: 160.
  • Meloscirtus Bruner, 1906 in Carbonell, 1995: 123.
  • Meloscirtus Bruner, 1906 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 413.

References (7)

  • Bruner, L. (1906) Synoptic list of Paraguayan Acrididae, or locusts, with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 30(1461), 613–694. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53722#page/711/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
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1927) On new and certain previously-known American genera of the Acridinae with specific comments and descriptions (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 53(3), 213–240. Available at http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/browse/title/5077659.html
  • Jago, N.D. (1971) A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world with a key to the genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 123, 205–343. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=ELz9FCjoVVkC
  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Carbonell, C.S. (1995) Revision of the tribe Scyllinini, nov. (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae), with descriptions of new genera and speces. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 121(3), 87–152.
  • 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 melos, leg + scirtos, bound, leap.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1001