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Orthoptera Species File
Family

Ommexechidae Bolívar, 1884

Type

type genus of Ommexechidae Bolívar, 1884

Nomenclature (14)

  • Ommexechidae Bolívar, 1884

    type genus Ommexecha Serville, 1831

  • Ommexechae Bolívar, 1884: 20.

    type genus Ommexecha Serville, 1831

  • Ommexechidae Bolívar, 1884 in Song, 2018: 270.
  • Ommexechidae Bolívar, 1884 in Hemp, Ritchie, Cigliano, Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz, Linde, Uluar, Oumarou-Ngoute & Song, 2025: 492.

References (12)

  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1961) A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 10(9), 351–419. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2242565
  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Ronderos, R.A. (1979) La familia Ommexechidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Acrida, 8(4), 241–273.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • Diniz Filho, J.A.F. & Mesa, A. (1994) Estudo fenético de algumas espécies de Ommexechidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 54(1), 1–11.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • de Domenico, F.C. (2012) Estudo filogenetico da Familia Ommexechidae (Orthoptera, Caelifera, Acridomorpha). Doctoral thesis. Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 173pp. [in Portuguese] https://doi.org/10.11606/T.41.2012.tde-01052013-092953
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Song, H. (2018) 10 Biodiversity of Orthoptera. In Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume 2. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 245–279 pp.
  • Hemp, C., Ritchie, J.M., Cigliano, M.M., Heller, K.-G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Linde, J.B., Uluar, O., Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Song, H. (2025) Out of sight, out of mind? Ixalidiidae, a new family of African forest grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) revealed by molecular phylogenetics and genital morphology. Zoosystema, 47(24), 489–553. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a24

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Family1012
Subfamily3036
Tribe2024
Genus130619
Species3305588