genus

Ommexecha Serville, 1831

Type

Ommexecha virens Serville, 1831 type species by original monotypy of Ommexecha Serville, 1831

Nomenclature (16)

Ommexecha Serville, 1831: 285.
type species by original monotypy Ommexecha virens Serville, 1831
Ommexecha Serville, 1831 in Blanchard, 1836
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Ommexecha Serville, 1831 in Otte, 1994: 211.
Ommexecha Serville, 1831 in Carbonell, Cigliano & Lange, 2006

Nomenclature references (16)

Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
Amédégnato, C. (1976) Structure et evolution des genitalia chez les acrididae et familles apparentées. Acrida, 5(1), 1–15.
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Blanchard, C.É. (1836) Monographie du genre Ommexecha de la famille des Acridiens. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 5, 603–624. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105681#page/613/mode/1up

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

Bolívar, I. (1899) Revisión de los Pirgomorfinos de la sección Ommexechae. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 3, 50–57. Available at http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1899/3-4/Bolivar_1899.3-4.pdf

Carbonell, C.S., Cigliano, M.M. & Lange, C.E. (2006) Especies de acridomorfos (Orthoptera) de Argentina y Uruguay / Acridomorph (Orthoptera) species of Argentina and Uruguay. The Orthopterists' Society.

Eades, D.C. (1961) The tribes and relationships of the Ommexechinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 113(7), 157–172.

Gurney, A.B. & Liebermann, J. (1963) Grasshoppers of the tribe Ommexechini: a key to genera, a new Argentine genus, and notes on others (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 76, 127–138. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107599#page/151/mode/1up

Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1953) On the gender of the generic name Ommexecha Serville, 1831, and the correct rendering of the name Chrotogonus homalodemus (Blanchard, 1836) (Orth., Acrididae). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 89, 221–223.

Kirby, W.F. (1890) On the employment of names proposed for genera of Orthoptera, previous to 1840. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 556–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95855#page/572/mode/1up

Liebermann, J. (1939) Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 10, 125–230. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/58220

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.

Ronderos, R.A. (1978) Nota para una revisión de la subfamilia Ommexechinae VIII. El género Ommexecha Serville (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 36, 97–111. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/41756

Ronderos, R.A. (1979) La familia Ommexechidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Acrida, 8(4), 241–273.

Serville, J.G.A. (1831) Revue méthodique des insectes de l'ordre des Orthoptères. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 22(86), 28–65, 134–167, 262–292. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29456
Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From ὄμμα (eye) and εξέχων (outstanding, prominent), referring to the protruding eyes.

Stats

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
genus	1	0	0	1
species	6	0	7	13