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)
- Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
- 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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- 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
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | |
| superspecies | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| species | 16 | 0 | 40 | 56 | |
| subspecies | 5 | 0 | 27 | 32 | |
