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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Atopotettix Brown, 1970

Type

type species by original designation of

Nomenclature (7)

  • Atopotettix Brown, 1970: 503.

    type species by original designation Atopotettix megalocephalus Brown, 1970

  • Atopotettix Brown, 1970 in Brown, 1972: 269.
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  • Atopotettix Brown, 1970 in Otte, 2020: 6.
  • Atopotettix Brown, 1970 in Otte, 2024: 21, 22, 31.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Brown, H.D. (1970) New genera and species of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) from South Africa. Journal of Natural History, 4, 493–509.
  • Brown, H.D. (1972) New genera of African Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 35(2), 269–277.
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  • 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
  • Ritchie, J.M. (1982) New and little-known Acridoidea (Insecta, Orthoptera) from Somalia. 1. The genus Merehana Kevan and its taxonomic affinities, with a redefinition of the Shelforditinae. Monitore zoologico italiano (N.S.), Suppl. 17(6), 171–181. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03749444.1982.10736664
  • 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 ἄτοπος, unusual, and τέττιξ, a common part of generic names among Orthoptera.

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