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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Ommexecha Serville, 1831

Type

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
  • Ommexecha Serville, 1831 in Otte, 1994: 211.
  • Ommexecha Serville, 1831 in Carbonell, Cigliano & Lange, 2006

References (16)

  • 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
  • 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
  • Walker, F. (1870) 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species60713