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Physocrobylus Dirsh, 1951

FieldOccurrence 330; c94a24e9-889d-45cb-a1cf-ea86f96a60f6; Nguru, 2017/06/??: male, apex dors. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 330; c94a24e9-889d-45cb-a1cf-ea86f96a60f6; Nguru, 2017/06/??: male, apex dors. (FieldOccurrence).
FieldOccurrence 330; c94a24e9-889d-45cb-a1cf-ea86f96a60f6; Nguru, 2017/06/??: male, kopf and pronotum. (FieldOccurrence).

Type

Physocrobylus burtti Dirsh, 1951 type species by original designation or monotypy of Physocrobylus Dirsh, 1951

Nomenclature (9)

  • Physocrobylus Dirsh, 1951: 74.

    type species by original designation or monotypy Physocrobylus burtti Dirsh, 1951

  • Physocrobylus Dirsh, 1951 in Johnston, 1956: 348.
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  • Physocrobylus Dirsh, 1951 in Rowell & Hemp, 2017: 122.
  • Physocrobylus Dirsh, 1951 in Hemp, 2021: 1.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1951) Some new and little-known African Acrididae (Orthotpera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 20, 73–79.
  • Hemp, C. (2021) A new species of Physocrobylus (Caelifera: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Coptacrinae), with notes on the phenology and habitat of the genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 30(1), 1–6. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/53375/
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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.
  • Jago, N.D. (1978) The systematic position of Physocrobylus burtti Dirsh 1951, with description of the previously undescribed male sex. Acrida, 7(2), 79–83.
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species3003