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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Tauchira Stål, 1878

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Tauchira Stål, 1878

Nomenclature (36)

  • Tauchira Stål, 1878: 48.

    type species by subsequent designation Oxya polychroa Stål, 1875 in Kirby, 1910

  • Tauchira Stål, 1878 in Kirby, 1910: 379.
  • Tauchira Stål, 1878 in Mahmood, Samira & Idris, 2007: 1147.
  • Tauchira Stål, 1878 in He, Mao & Li, 2026

References (18)

  • Stål, C. (1878) Systema Acridiodeorum. Essai d'une systématisation des acridiodées. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 5(4), 1–100. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49816#page/127/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
  • Bolívar, I. (1918) Estudios entomológicos. Tercera parte. Sección Oxyae. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 34, 1–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48669
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1925) Description d'un nouveau genre d'orthoptère (Fam. Acridiodea, sous-famille Cyrtacanthacrinae). Hortus Botanicus Bogoriensis, Java (Treubia), 6(3-4), 355–359.
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1930) Fauna Sumatrensis (Bijdrage Nr. 62) Preliminary revision of the Acrididae (Orthoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 73, 1–210. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89680#page/125/mode/1up
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1940) Taxonomic and biological studies on the Cyrtacanthacrinae of South China. Lingnan Science Journal, 19(3), 269–382.
  • Ramme, W. (1941) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Acrididen-Fauna des indomalayischen und benachbarter Gebiete (Orth.). Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tiergeographie von Celebes. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 25, 1–243. [1940]
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1955) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 8, 3–225. [1956]
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1957) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera) (contd.). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 10, 227–500.
  • Hollis, D. (1975) A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 31(6), 189–234. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2355540#page/269/mode/1up
  • Zheng, Z.-M. (1981) New genus and new species of grasshoppers from Xishuangbanna, China. Acta Entomologica Sinica, 24(3), 295–304.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (1992) Acridoidea (Orthoptera) collected by A.V. Gorochov in Vietnam in 1988. In Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad]. Vol. 240, pp. 25–37. [1991]
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 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.
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University, 390 pp.
  • Li, H. & Xia, K.-L. (2006) Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 43.
  • Mahmood, K., Samira, D. & Idris, A.B. (2007) Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of Malaysia with the description of a new species. Acta Entomologica Sinica, 50(11), 1146–1161.
  • He, Y., Mao, B.-Y. & Li, M. (2026) New species of the Tauchira Stål, 1878 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Yunnan, China with a key to known species. Zootaxa, 5869(1), 150–158. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5869.1.12

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Possibly derived from Ταύχειρα, an ancient Greek seaport in the Cyrenaica.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1045
Species1302033