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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Acorypha Krauss, 1877

Type

type species by original monotypy of Acorypha Krauss, 1877

Nomenclature (39)

  • Acorypha Krauss, 1877: 38.

    type species by original monotypy Acorypha picta Krauss, 1877

  • Caloptenus [sic] (Caloptenopsis) Bolívar, 1889: 173.

    type species by subsequent designation Caloptenus [sic] vittatus Bolívar, 1889 in Kirby, 1910

  • Acorypha Krauss, 1877 in Ingrisch, 1999: 353.
  • Acorypha Krauss, 1877 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 137.

References (22)

  • Krauss, H.A. (1877) Orthoptera vom Senegal, gesammelt von Dr. Franz Steindachner. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (Abt. 1), 76(1), 29–63. [1878] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35385
  • Bolívar, I. (1889) Ortópteros de Africa del Museo de Lisboa (3). Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 2), 1, 150–173. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23044
  • Kirby, W.F. (1902) List of a small collection of orthopterous insects formed by Sir Harry Johnston in British East Africa and Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with descriptions of five new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1902(1), 93–101. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98524#page/131/mode/1up
  • Martínez y Fernández-Castillo, A. (1902) Revisión y estudio del grupo Calopteni. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 30, 253–308. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1181
  • 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
  • Kirby, W.F. (1914) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London, 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1922) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. 2. The group of Calliptamini. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 48, 117–177. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51053#page/193/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1929) Contributions to a knowledge of the Fauna of South West Africa. VIII. Records and descriptions of Acrididae from S.W. Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 29, 41–75. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127106#page/65/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1950) The genus Caloptenopsis I. Bolivar and its allies (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, tomo extraordinario, 385–413. [1951] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/154299
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1954) Synonymic and nomenclatorial notes on Acrididae (Orthoptera). Entomologische Berichten, 15, 146–147. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1015174
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • Mistshenko, L. (1965) Locusts and Grasshoppers. The Fauna of Russia (= The USSR Fauna). New Series. [1952]
  • Jago, N.D. (1967) A key, check list and synonymy to the species formerly included in the genera Caloptenopsis I. Bolivar, 1889, and Acorypha Krauss, 1877 (Orth. Calliptaminae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 42(3-4), 397–462. [1966] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/162710
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1967) Orthoptera-Caelifera from northern Kenya and Jubaland IV. Acrididae, s. str.: Colopteninae, Euryphyminae, Eyprepocnemidinae, Catantopinae, Cytacanthacridinae. Journal of Natural History, 1, 75–96.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1970) Acridoidea of the Congo (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 8(182), 1–605.
  • Johnsen, P. (1982) Acridoidea of Zambia. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Vol. 3, 163–241 [continuation].
  • 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.
  • Ingrisch, S. (1999) Orthopteroid insects of Yemen. Esperiana, Schwanfeld, 7, 349–376.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Hemp, C. (2017) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Probably refering to lacking apex of head (corypha is Greek for summit).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1045
Species32073105
Subspecies1004757