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genus

Fossiferus Bolívar, 1914

Type

Fossiferus transvaaliensis Bolívar, 1914 type species by original monotypy of Fossiferus Bolívar, 1914

Nomenclature (6)

  • Fossiferus Bolívar, 1914: 81. (nomen dubium in Otte, 1995: 314)

    type species by original monotypy Fossiferus transvaaliensis Bolívar, 1914

  • Fossiferus Bolívar, 1914 in Johnston, 1956: 619.
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  • Fossiferus Bolívar, 1914 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 295.
  • Fossiferus Bolívar, 1914 in Jago, 1996

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Bolívar, I. (1914) Estudios entomológicos. Segunda parte. I. El Grupo de los Euprepocnemes. II. Los Truxalinos del antiguo Mundo. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 20, 1–110. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48655
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) In The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London. 579 pp.
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  • Jago, N.D. (1996) Review of western and eastern African genera of the Dnopherula complex (Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Gomphocerinae) with description of new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 5, 69–124.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 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) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.
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