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Genus

Omocestus Bolívar, 1878

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Omocestus Bolívar, 1878

Nomenclature (26)

  • Gomphocerus (Omocestus) Bolívar, 1878: 427.

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus (Locusta) viridulus Linnaeus, 1758

  • Omocestus Bolívar, 1878 in Kirby, 1910: 172, 581.
  • Omocestus Bolívar, 1878 in Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015: 251.
  • Omocestus Bolívar, 1878 in Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023: 24.

References (26)

  • Bolívar, I. (1878) Analecta Orthopterologica. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 7, 423–470. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1132
  • 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
  • Ramme, W. (1913) Orthopterologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Krain und Istrien (1912). Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 58, 1–20. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49237#page/83/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et dermaptères. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 3, 212 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1093568
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1951) Orthoptéroïdes. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 56, 359 pp. Available at http://faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/L.CHOPARD%28FdeFr56%29Orthopteroides.pdf
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • 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
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • Pascual, F. (1978) Estudio preliminar de los ortópteros de Sierra Nevada. 2: Claves para la determinación de especies. Trabajos Monogr. Dep. Zool. Univ. Granada (N.S.), 1(1), 1–63.
  • Voisin, J.-F. (1979) La determination des Omocestus de la faune de France. (Orth. Acrididae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 84(3-4), 49–52. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_1979_num_84_3_21682
  • Yin, X.-C. (1984) Grasshoppers and locusts from Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China. Science Press, Beijing, 1–287 pp.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1986) The songs of the western European grasshoppers of the genus Omocestus in relation to their taxonomy (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 53(4), 213–249. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis53entolond
  • Clemente, M.E. (1987) Revisión de los géneros Stenobothrus Fischer, 1853, Omocestus Bolivar, 1878 y Myrmeleotettix Bolivar, 1914 en la Península Ibérica (Orthoptera: Caelifera). Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, 349 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (1988) La détermination des orthopteroides ouest-paléarctiques 6. Caelifera: Acrididae (suite). 7. Ensifera. 8. Mantodea. Travaux du Laboratoire d'Ecobiologie des arthropodes édaphiques, 6(1), 1–93.
  • Clemente, M.E., García, M.D. & Presa, J.J. (1991) Los Gomphocerinae de la Península Ibérica: 2. Omocestus Bolivar, 1878 (Insecta, Orthoptera, Caelifera). Graellsia, 46, 191–246. [1990]
  • Fogh Nielsen, O. (1996) Danmarks græshopper. Natur og Museum, 35(3), 1–31.
  • 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.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. & Xia, K.-L. (1998) Orthoptera. Acridoidea. Oedipodidae and Arcypteridae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 10, i-xv, 1–616; Insecta.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 85 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
  • Kočárek, P., Holuša, J. & Vidlicka, L. (2005) Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera & Dermaptera Ceské a Slovenské republiky. Kabourek, Zlin, Czech Republic, 1–348 pp.
  • Savitsky, V.Y. (2005) New data on acoustic communication of grasshoppers of the genera Omocestus Bol. and Myrmeleotettix Bol. (Orthoptera, Acrididae) from southern European Russia and their taxonomic importance. Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 76, 92–117.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Lapteva, S.V. (2023) To the knowledge of the genus Omocestus I. Bolivar, 1878 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, 94, 23–26. [in Russian]

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1034
Subgenus4037
Species520137189
Subspecies805563