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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Taramassus Giglio-Tos, 1907

Type

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

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

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

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
  • 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.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty-eight new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5, 173–176.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) 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.
  • 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
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 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
  • 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.
  • 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

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species6028
Subspecies30811