Species

Oxya nitidula (Walker, 1870)

Nomenclature (14)

Acridium nitidulum Walker, 1870: 631. (valid)
Holotype; male; 254fde70-f5c5-41a7-b1e1-02d07aefb4b1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India: Hindustan
Acridium nitidulum Walker, 1870 (subjective synonym of Gryllus velox Fabricius, 1787) in Kirby, 1910: 394.

Oxya nitidula (Walker, 1870) in Hodjat, Tork, Seiedy & Defaut, 2018: 58.
Oxya nitidula (Walker, 1870) in Sultana, Soomro & Wagan, 2020

References (14)

Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
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

Bolívar, I. (1918) Estudios entomológicos. Tercera parte. Sección Oxyae. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 34, 1–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48669

Willemse, C.J.M. (1925) Revision der Gattung Oxya Serville (Orthoptera, Subfam. Acridiodea, trib. Cyrtacanthacrinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 68, 1–60. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/87842#page/115/mode/1up

Uvarov, B.P. (1926) Notes on the genus Oxya Serv. (Orth. Acrid.). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 17, 45–58.

Uvarov, B.P. (1929) Acrididen (Orthoptera) aus Süd-Indien. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 36, 533–563. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148558#page/583/mode/1up

Sandrasagara, T.R. (1949) A catalogue of the named Ceylonese Tetrigidae, Eumastacidae and Acrididae (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the collection of the Colombo Museum, with records of distribution. Records of the Indian Museum, 47, 135–157. [1950]

Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 1, 1–400 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224096#page/9/mode/1up

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]

Hollis, D. (1975) A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 31(6), 189–234. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2355540#page/269/mode/1up

Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf

Hodjat, S.H., Tork, M., Seiedy, M. & Defaut, B. (2018) A taxonomic review of recorded species of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in Iran. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 23, 35–75. Available at https://ascete.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MOE_23_HODJAT_et_al_Acrididea_from-Iran_2018-01-02.pdf
Sultana, R., Soomro, N. & Wagan, M.S. (2020) Description of new species of Oxya from Pakistan with comparison to a close ally (Oxyinae: Acrididae: Orthoptera). Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 52(5), 1871–1876. Available at http://researcherslinks.com/current-issues/Description-of-New-Species-of-Oxya/20/1/2955/html

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin diminutive for handsome or beautiful.

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
Species	1	0	1	2