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genus

Taramassus Giglio-Tos, 1907

Type

type species by original designation or monotypy of

Nomenclature (15)

  • Taramassus Giglio-Tos, 1907: 34.

    type species by original designation or monotypy Taramassus cervus Giglio-Tos, 1907

  • Eucerohippus Ramme, 1929: 478.

    type species Paraeuprepocnemis cunctator Karsch, 1900

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  • Taramassus Giglio-Tos, 1907 in Schmidt, 1996: 70, 88.
  • Taramassus Giglio-Tos, 1907 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 215.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1907) Ortotteri Africani. Parte I Acridoidea. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 22(554), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43468#page/41/mode/1up
  • Grunshaw, J.P. (1991) A revision of the grasshopper genus Heteracris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae). Natural Resources Institute Bulletin, 38, i-iv, 1–106. Available at http://gala.gre.ac.uk/11108/1/11108_Grunshaw_A%20revision%20of%20the%20grasshopper%20genus%20%28book%29%201991.pdf
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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 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Schmidt, G.H. (1996) The African genus Taramassus: taxonomy, reproduction and stridulation (Saltatoria: Acrididae). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 46(1), 67–94. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/1428
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty-eight new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5, 173–176.
  • 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

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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
genus1023
species6028
subspecies30811