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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Oxycatantops Dirsh, 1953

Type

type species by original designation or monotypy of Oxycatantops Dirsh, 1953

Nomenclature (10)

  • Oxycatantops Dirsh, 1953 in Dirsh & Uvarov, 1953: 235.

    type species by original designation or monotypy Catantops congoensis Sjöstedt, 1929

  • Oxycatantops Dirsh, 1953 in Dirsh, 1956: 15, 111.
  • Oxycatantops Dirsh, 1953 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 488.
  • Oxycatantops Dirsh, 1953 in Rowell & Hemp, 2018: 148.

References (10)

  • Dirsh, V.M. & Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Preliminary diagnoses of new genera and new synonymy in Acrididae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 96, 231–237. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89813#page/259/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Preliminary revision of the genus Catantops Schaum and review of the group Catantopini (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 28, 11–151.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Jago, N.D. (1984) The alate genera of east African Catantopinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) including revision of the genus Catantops Schaum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 110(3), 295–387.
  • Jago, N.D. (1989) Revision of the African grasshopper genus Oxycatantops Dirsh & Uvarov 1953 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea Acrididae, Catantopidae). Tropical Zoology, 2(2), 207–234.
  • Johnsen, P. (1991) Acrididae: Catantopinae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Acridinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana, 2, 132–284.
  • 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.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2018) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 3. Acrididae: Catantopinae. 224 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species80816
Subspecies501722