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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Usambilla Sjöstedt, 1910

Type

Usambilla olivacea Sjöstedt, 1910 type species by original monotypy of Usambilla Sjöstedt, 1910

Nomenclature (23)

  • Usambilla Sjöstedt, 1910: 191.

    type species by original monotypy Usambilla olivacea Sjöstedt, 1910

  • Adolfia Rehn, 1914: 147. (homonym)

    type species by original designation Adolfia insolita Rehn, 1914

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  • Usambilla Sjöstedt, 1910 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 198.
  • Usambilla Sjöstedt, 1910 in Matenaar, Bröder & Hochkirch, 2016

Nomenclature references (15)

  • 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.
  • Hemp, C. & Hemp, A. (2008) A new Usambilla species (Acridoidea, Lentulidae) from the northwestern highlands of Tanzania and distribution data on the genus Usambilla. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 17(1), 37–42. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282008%2917%5B37%3AANUSAL%5D2.0.CO%3B2
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  • Hemp, C., Schultz, O., Hemp, A. & Wägele, W. (2007) New Lentulidae species from East Africa (Orthoptera: Saltatoria). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 16(1), 85–96. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282007%2916%5B85%3ANLSFEA%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Jago, N.D. (1981) A revision of the genus Usambilla Sjostedt (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) and its allies. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 43(1), 1–38. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis43entolond
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1914) Orthoptera I: Mantidae, Phasmidae, Acrididae, Tettigoniidae und Gryllidae aus dem Zentral-Afrikanischen Gebiet, Uganda und dem Ituri-Becken des Kongo. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Zentralafrika Expedition 1907-1908, 5, 1–223. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/966177#page/7/mode/1up
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 pp.
  • Schultz, O., Hemp, C., Hemp, A. & Wägele, W. (2007) Molecular phylogeny of the endemic East African flightless grasshoppers Altiusambilla Jago, Usambilla (Sjöstedt) and Rhainopomma Jago (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Systematic Entomology, 32, 1–8.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1939) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3, 457–459.
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald (1964) An ecological survey of grasshoppers of the subfamily Catantopinae in Eastern Central Africa. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 7(1), 333–378.
  • 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

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
genus1023
species120719
subspecies4048