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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893

Type

type species by original monotypy of Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893

Nomenclature (18)

  • Pygostolus Karsch, 1891: 192. (homonym)

    type species by original monotypy Pygostolus impennis Karsch, 1891

  • Pygostolus Karsch, 1891 (homonym of Pygostolus Haliday, 1833)
  • Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 in Rowell & Oumarou-Ngoute, 2025: 5.
  • Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 in Oumarou-Ngoute, Song, Mariño-Pérez, Woo, Linde & Rowell, 2025: 202, 211.

References (15)

  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1891) Verzeichnis der von Herrn Dr. Paul Preuss in Kamerun erbeuteten Acridiodeen. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 36(1), 175–196. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101306
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1893) Die Insecten der Berglandschaft Adeli im Hinterlande von Togo (Westafrika). Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 38, 1–266. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38634#page/71/mode/1up
  • Dominique, J. (1900) Trois Orthoptères nouveaux du Congo français. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, 10, 203–210. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29954#page/249/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Jago, N.D. (1964) Aspects of the ecology and distribution of grasshoppers in Ghana as a contribution to the zoogeography of West Africa. Journal of the West Africa Science Association, 8(2), 190–204.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2005) A new Ugandan species of Pterotiltus (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae) with epiphyllic oviposition. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 14(1), 33–43. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282005%2914%5B33%3AANUSOP%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • 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.
  • Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2024) New species of Pterotiltus from Cameroon, and a new genus, Parapterotiltus (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 33(1), 127–146. Available at https://jor.pensoft.net/article/96043/
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Oumarou-Ngoute, C. (2025) Review of Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 986, 1–104. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.986.2853
  • Oumarou-Ngoute, C., Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, R., Woo, B., Linde, J.B. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2025) A new species of Pterotiltus Karsch (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae) from Equatorial Guinea. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(2), 201–212. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.141073

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From the Greek “pteros”, “wing” or “fin”, and “tiltos”, “shredded, ruined”, presumably an allusion to the microptery or aptery of the genus.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species190827