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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Xyleus Gistel, 1848

Type

Tropinotus discoideus Serville, 1831 type species by subsequent designation of Xyleus Gistel, 1848

Nomenclature (45)

  • Tropinotus Serville, 1831: 272. (homonym)

    type species by subsequent designation Tropinotus discoideus Serville, 1831 in Rehn, 1907

  • Tropinotus Serville, 1831 (homonym of Tropinotus Kuhl, 1822)
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  • Xyleus Gistel, 1848 in Rowell, 2013: 86.
  • Xyleus Gistel, 1848 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 249-250.

Nomenclature references (28)

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  • Blanchard, C.É. (1851) Fauna chilena. Orden VI. Ortópteros. In Historia física y politica de Chile: Vol. 6 (Zool.). Museo de historia natural de Santiago, Paris & Chile. pp. 5–85. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54591#page/5/mode/1up
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  • Bolívar, I. (1906) Rectificaciones y observaciones ortopterológicas. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 6(7), 384–393. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17792#page/396/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1909) Acrídidos nuevos americanos. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 13(6), 337–354. Available at http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1909/6/Bolivar_1909.6.pdf
  • Bruner, L. (1911) South American Acridoidea. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 8(1), 5–147. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37006
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Carbonell, C.S. (2004) The genus Xyleus Gistel 1848 (Acridoidea, Romaleidae, Romaleinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 13(1), 63–133. Available at http://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Orthoptera-Research/volume-13/issue-1/1082-6467(2004)013[0063:TGXGAR]2.0.CO;2/The-genus-Xyleus-Gistel-1848-Acridoidea-Romaleidae-Romaleinae/10.1665/1082-6467(2004)013[0063:TGXGAR]2.0.CO;2.full
  • Caudell, A.N. (1932) Insects of the order Orthoptera of the Pinchot expedition of 1929. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 80(21), 1–7. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32574#page/543/mode/1up
  • Frias de Fernandez, A.M. & Ruiz de Bigliardo, G.E. (1993) Citogenetica de especies de acrididos de la Provincia de Tucuman (Orthoptera - Romaleidae). De Acta Zoologica Lilloana del Instituto "Miguel Lillo.", 42(1), 133–138. [1992]
  • Gistel, J.von N.F.X. (1848) In Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere Schulen. Hoffmann, Stuttgart. Vol. 9.
  • 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
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Liebermann, J. (1935) Catálogo sistemático y razonado de acridoideos argentinos (Orth., Acrididae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 7, 25–50. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/59608
  • 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
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Pictet, A. & de Saussure, H. (1887) Catalogue d'Acridiens. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 7(9), 331–376. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39741
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1959) An analysis of the tribes of the Romaleinae with special reference to their internal genitalia (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 85, 233–271.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Non-saltatorial and acridoid Orthoptera from Sapucay, Paraguay. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59, 151–192. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38138#page/191/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Orthoptera of the families Tettigoniidae and Gryllidae from Sapucay, Paraguay. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59(2), 370–395. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79427#page/378/mode/1up
  • Ronderos, R.A. (1959) Identificación de las especies de tucuras más comunes de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Agro, Buenos Aires, 1(1), 1–31.
  • Rosas Costa, J.A. (1963) A propósito del género Paralcamenes Bolívar 1909 (Orth. Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 39, 307–311. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/158213
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • 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
  • Stål, C. (1876) Observations orthoptérologiques 2. Les genres des Acridiodées de la faune Européenne. Aperçu des genres des Acridiodées de l'Amérique du Nord. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4(5), 1–58. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49926#page/233/mode/1up
  • Stål, C. (1878) Observationes orthoptérologiques 3. De genere Pezotettigis et nonnullis generibus affinibus. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 5(9), 1–20. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49816#page/403/mode/1up
  • Stål, C. (1878) Systema Acridiodeorum. Essai d'une systématisation des acridiodées. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 5(4), 1–100. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49816#page/127/mode/1up
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 112–117.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In 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:

From Greek ξῠ́λον and probably referring to the wood-like appearance of the integument.

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
genus1078
superspecies4004
species1604056
subspecies502732