genus

Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893

Type

Pygostolus impennis Karsch, 1891 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)
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Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 in Rowell & Oumarou-Ngoute, 2025: 5.
Pterotiltus Karsch, 1893 in Oumarou-Ngoute, Song, Mariño-Pérez, Woo, Linde & Rowell, 2025: 202, 211.

Nomenclature references (15)

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/

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

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. & 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

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.

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.

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	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
genus	1	0	1	2
species	19	0	8	27