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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Parodontomelus Ramme, 1929

Type

Acteana brachyptera Karny, 1917 type species by subsequent designation of Parodontomelus Ramme, 1929

Nomenclature (7)

  • Parodontomelus Ramme, 1929: 261.

    type species by subsequent designation Acteana brachyptera Karny, 1917

  • Parodontomelus Ramme, 1929 in Johnston, 1956: 609.
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  • Parodontomelus Ramme, 1929 in Hochkirch, 1999: 43.
  • Parodontomelus Ramme, 1929 in Popov, Fishpool & Rowell, 2019: 41, 45, 47.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Hochkirch, A. (1999) Parodontomelus luci sp. n., a new grasshopper species from the Udzungwa mountains, Tanzania (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Acridinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 8, 39–44.
  • Jago, N.D. (1983) Flightless members of the Phlaeoba genus group in eastern and northeastern Africa and their evolutionary convergence with the genus Odontomelus and its allies (Orth.: Acridoidea, Acrididae, Acridinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 109(1), 77–126.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In 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.
  • Popov, G.B., Fishpool, L.D.C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2019) A review of the Acridinae s. str. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) of eastern Africa with taxonomic changes and description of new taxa. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 28(1), 37–105. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/29312/
  • Ramme, W. (1929) Afrikanische Acrididae. Revisionen und Beschreibungen wenig bekannter und neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15, 247–492.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species80412