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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896

Type

type species by original monotypy of Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896

Nomenclature (12)

  • Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896: 305.

    type species by original monotypy Parepistaurus deses Karsch, 1896

  • Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896 in Kevan, 1955: 478.
  • Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896 in Hemp, Kehl, Schultz, Wägele & Hemp, 2015
  • Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 106, 107.

References (12)

  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1896) Neue Orthopteren aus dem tropischen Afrika. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 57, 242–359. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36013#page/250/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1955) E. African Blattodea, Phasmatodea and Orthoptera. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Ostafrika-Expedition 1951/52, Gruppe Lindner, Stuttgart, Nr. 5. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 5, 472–485. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/267
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Acridological notes. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 101, 51–63. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89774#page/65/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology. Cambridge University Press, London, Vol. 1, 481 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • 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.
  • Green, S.V. (1998) Revision of the African grasshopper genus Parepistaurus Karsch 1896 (Orthoptera Acrididae Coptacridinae). Tropical Zoology, 11, 259–332. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03946975.1998.10539369#.VNOmxS5TucU
  • Hemp, C. & Kehl, S. (2010) Taxonomic changes and new species of the flightless genus Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896 (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Coptacridinae) from mountainous East Africa. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 19(1), 31–39. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.019.0106
  • Hemp, C., Kehl, S., Schultz, O., Wägele, J.W. & Hemp, A. (2015) Climatic fluctuations and orogenesis as motors for speciation in East Africa: case study on Parepistaurus Karsch, 1896 (Orthoptera). Systematic Entomology, 40, 17–34. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12092/pdf
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species250833
Subspecies5038