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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Oxytruxalis Dirsh, 1950

Type

Truxalis ensis Burr, 1899 type species by original designation of Oxytruxalis Dirsh, 1950

Nomenclature (6)

  • Oxytruxalis Dirsh, 1950: 135, 149.

    type species by original designation Truxalis ensis Burr, 1899

  • Oxytruxalis Dirsh, 1950 in Johnston, 1956: 741.
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  • Oxytruxalis Dirsh, 1950 in Jago, 1996: 126.
  • Oxytruxalis Dirsh, 1950 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 491.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1950) Revision of the group Truxales (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, Tomo extraord., 119–248. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153460
  • Jago, N.D. (1996) Song, sex and synonymy: the Palaearctic genus Acrida Linnaeus (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Acridinae) and synonymy of the subfamily Truxalinae under the subfamily Acridinae. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 5, 125–129.
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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.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Prefix oxy- (from Greek ὀξύς), sharp, relating to the strongly elongated and slender body, and Truxalis Fabricius, 1775.

Stats

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
species1023