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Orthoptera Species File
Subfamily

Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Type

type genus of Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Nomenclature (35)

  • Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

    type genus Coptacra Stål, 1873

  • Coptacrini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (not Latin)

    type genus Coptacra Stål, 1873

  • Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 88.
  • Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 in Sultana & Song, 2024: 22.

References (27)

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  • Key, K.H.L. (1992) A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 1. General introduction and subfamily Oxyinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 6(3), 547–551.
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  • Hochkirch, A. (1996) Physocrobylus tessa, a new grasshopper species from the East Usambara Mountains, NE Tanzania and its systematic position (Acridoidea, Acrididae, Coptacridinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 5, 53–55, illustr.
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University, 390 pp.
  • Shishodia, M.S. (2000) Short and long-horned grasshoppers and crickets of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 98(1), 27–80.
  • Dey, A. & Hazra, A.K. (2003) Diversity and distribution of grasshopper fauna of greater Kolkata with notes on their ecology. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India, 19(3), 1–118.
  • Shishodia, M.S., Dey, A. & Tandon, S.K. (2003) Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. In Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series. Vol. 2, pp. 165–192. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/sfs/045/index.pdf
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  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Kim, T. (2016) A new species in the genus Alectorolophus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 from Indonesia with discussion on its position compared to allied genera in subfamily Catantopinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zootaxa, 4121(2), 147–158.
  • 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.
  • Sultana, R. & Song, H. (2024) Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea). Zootaxa, 5486(1), 1–47. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.1

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subfamily1034
Genus2301538
Species150085235
Subspecies110920