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genus

Eremidium Karsch, 1896

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type species by original monotypy of

Nomenclature (30)

  • Eremidium Karsch, 1896: 280.

    type species by original monotypy Eremidium equuleus Karsch, 1896

  • Eremidium Karsch, 1896 in Dirsh, 1956: 152.
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  • Armstrongium Brown, 2014 (subjective synonym of Eremidium Karsch, 1896) in Otte, 2024: 21, 56.
  • Parasilvanidium Brown, 2016 (subjective synonym of Eremidium Karsch, 1896) in Otte, 2024: 21, 56.

Nomenclature references (16)

  • Brown, H.D. (1962) New and interesting grasshoppers from southern Africa - 3 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 25(2), 198–229. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/25/2/AJA00128789_3701
  • Brown, H.D. (2012) Additional species of Eremidium Karsch, 1896 with description of a new allied genus from South Africa (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, 2, 47–68.
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  • Brown, H.D. (2013) New grasshoppers from KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, 3, 59–79.
  • Brown, H.D. (2014) Armstrongium - an unusual new sylvan genus of Lentulidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, 4(4), 33–50.
  • Brown, H.D. (2016) A new genus and species of grasshopper from the Grassland Biome of northeast KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Caelifera, Lentulidae). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, 6(7).
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Some new and little known South African Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 19, 250–288. Available at https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/AJA00128789_4335
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Matenaar, D., Bröder, L. & Hochkirch, A. (2016) A preliminary phylogeny of the South African Lentulidae. Hereditas, 153(1), 1–8. Available at http://hereditasjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41065-015-0005-6
  • Otte, D. & Armstrong, A.J. (2017) Additional Eremidium species from Eastern Cape Province and KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa and a new genus, Zulutettix (Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 143(2), 305–433.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Otte, D. (2015) Revision of the genus Eremidium Karsch with descriptions of sixteen new species (Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 141(3), 499–544.
  • Otte, D. (2024) Keys to Southern African Lentulidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) and revision of Eremidium. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 150(1), 21–159. https://doi.org/10.3157/061.150.0102
  • 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
genus101011
species83064147
subspecies3014