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genus

Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893

Type

Pygostolus impennis Karsch, 1891 type species of Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893

Nomenclature (16)

  • Pygostolus Karsch, 1891: 192. (homonym)

    type species by original monotypy Pygostolus impennis Karsch, 1891

  • Pygostolus Karsch, 1891 (homonym of Pygostolus Haliday, 1833)
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  • Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 84.
  • Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 in Oumarou-Ngoute & Rowell, 2024: 128.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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. (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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 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. & Hemp, C. (2017) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae. 237 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
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.
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Etymology:

Derived from replaced name Pygostolus Karsch, 1891.

Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893

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genus211
species18135
subspecies422