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Genus

Prumna Motschulsky, 1859

Type

type species by original monotypy of Prumna Motschulsky, 1859

Nomenclature (42)

  • Primnoa Fischer von Waldheim, 1846: 248.

    type species by original monotypy Podisma viridis Fischer von Waldheim, 1846

  • Primnoa Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 (homonym of Primnoa Lamouroux, 1812)
  • Prumna Motschulsky, 1859 (classified as Melanoplini Scudder, 1897) in Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015: 200.
  • Prumna Motschulsky, 1859 (classified as Podismini Jacobson, 1905) in Lapteva, 2026: 153.

References (28)

  • Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1846) Orthoptera Imperii Rossici. Entomographiae Rossicae IV. Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou, 8, i-iv, 1–443, pls 1–37. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=mZFByvjnxQwC
  • de Motschulsky, V.I. (1859) Insectes de la Siberie orientale. In Etudes Entomologiques. Imprimerie de la Société de Litérature Finnoise, Helsingfors. Vol. 8, 187 pp. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/212560#page/205/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) The genera of N. American Melanopli. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 32, 195–206. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22280#page/209/mode/1up
  • Jacobson, G.G. (1905) Orthoptera. In Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg. pp. 6–466. [1902]
  • 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
  • Dovnar-Zapolskij, D.P. (1932) Zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Podismini (Orthoptera, Acridodea) (Vorläufige Mitteilung). Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad], 1(3-4), 253–268. [in Russian]
  • Miram, E. (1933) Les Orthoptères de Jakoutie. Inst. Zool. Acad. Sci. URSS, Leningrad, Vol. 12, 1–52. [in Russian]
  • Miram, E. (1933) Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries: Vol. No. 38. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad.
  • Chang, K.S.F. (1940) The group Podismae from China (Acrididae, Orthoptera). Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise. Musée Heude, 7, 31–97, 3 pls.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 112–117.
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. 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. 1, 1–400 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224096#page/9/mode/1up
  • Mistshenko, L. (1952) Locusts and grasshoppers, Catantopinae. The Fauna of Russia (= The USSR Fauna). New Series., 4(2), 610 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Randell, R.L. (1963) A preliminary analysis of the lines of the super-tribe Melanoplini (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 115, 1–32. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5Y5x8Zew67EC
  • Inoue, M. (1979) A new species of the genus Primnoa unknown from Japan (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 16, 53–57.
  • Huang, C. (1982) Two new species of Primnoa F.-W. (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Catantopinae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 25(4), 431–433. Available at http://www.insect.org.cn/EN/abstract/abstract12429.shtml#
  • Lee, H.S. & Lee, C.-E. (1984) Taxonomic revision of the Catantopinae from Korea (Orthoptera: Acrididae). 2. Podismini. Korean Journal of Entomology, 14(1), 63–80.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (1991) Two new species of the genus Primnoa Fisher-Waldheim, 1846, from the Soviet Union (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Entomofauna, 12(14), 165–170.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. (1993) Locust Classification Study. Shanghai Scientific & Technological Literature Publishing House, Shanghai, i-iv, 1–442.
  • 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.
  • Ito, G. (2003) Prumna Motschulsky, a revived name for a grasshopper genus, Primnoa Fischer-Waldheim (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Tettigonia: Memoirs of the Orthopterological Society of Japan, 5, 51–52.
  • Mayer, F. (2004) Primnoa Fischer-Waldheim 1846, Sharovia Otte 1997, Parahagla Lin 1982, Phyllophora erosifolia Piza 1981 and Archibrunnea Otte 1997; naming issues resolved. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 13(1), 161–165.
  • Li, H. & Xia, K.-L. (2006) Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 43.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Paik, J. (2007) Orthoptera of Korea.
  • Chintauan-Marquier, I.C., Amédégnato, C., Nichols, R.A., Pompanon, F., Grandcolas, P. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2014) Inside the Melanoplinae: New molecular evidence for the evolutionary history of the Eurasian Podismini (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 71, 224–233. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790313003606#
  • Ito, G. (2015) A systematic study of the grashopper tribe Podismini in Japan (Orthoptera:Acrididae). Insecta Matsumurana, New Series, 71, 1–119. Available at http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/journals/item.php?item=71397&handle=2115_60241&jname=188&vname=5624
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Lapteva, S.V. (2026) Review of the Russian representatives of the genus Prumna Motschulsky, 1859 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Zootaxa, 5886(2), 152–192. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5886.2.1

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
Species2703259
Subspecies3069