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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Gymnidium Karsch, 1896

Type

Gymnidium turbinatum Karsch, 1896 type species by original monotypy of Gymnidium Karsch, 1896

Nomenclature (14)

  • Gymnidium Karsch, 1896: 278.

    type species by original monotypy Gymnidium turbinatum Karsch, 1896

  • Koranacris Rehn, 1944: 105.

    type species by original designation Koranacris pumicea Rehn, 1944

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  • Gymnidium Karsch, 1896 in Otte, 2020: 3, 10.
  • Gymnidium Karsch, 1896 in Otte, 2024: 21, 22, 44.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1953) New and little-known South African Acrididae (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 376–381.
  • 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.
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  • 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. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Otte, D. (2020) Thirty-two new South African grasshopper species in the family Lentulidae belonging to eleven genera (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 146(1), 1–164.
  • 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
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1944) A review of the Old World Euthymiae (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 96, 1–135. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=axt087cw1R0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0
  • 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

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from γυμνός, naked or unarmed, alluding to the absence of an abdominal tympanum.

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
genus1012
species3025