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genus

Bactrophora Westwood, 1842

Type

type species by original monotypy of

Nomenclature (16)

  • Bactrophora Westwood, 1842: 66.

    type species by original monotypy Bactrophora dominans Westwood, 1842

  • Scolocephalus Bruner, 1905: 315.

    type species by original monotypy Scolocephalus mirabilis Bruner, 1905

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  • Bactrophora Westwood, 1842 in Rowell, 2013: 119.
  • Bactrophora Westwood, 1842 in Silva, Tavares, Fianco & González, 2021: 895.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Amédégnato, C. & Poulain, S. (1994) Nouvelles données sur les peuplements acridiens nord andéens et nord-ouest amazoniens: La famille des Romaleidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 30(1), 1–24. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6132539g/f14.item
  • Bruner, L. (1905) Two remarkable new Costa Rican locusts. Entomological News, 16, 313–316. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20200
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) Note on three aberrant genera of Acridoidea from South and Central America (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 40, 437–445. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/160829
  • 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
  • Martínez, S. (1921) Nota acerca de la Bactrophora dominans Westwood (Orth. Locust). Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Tomo extraordinario, 503–508. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1414
  • 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. (1938) A revision of the Neotropical Euthymiae (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 90, 41–102. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=StMH4RATtWsC
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • Silva, D.S.M., Tavares, G.C., Fianco, M. & González, J.M. (2021) First report of the rare arboreal grasshopper Bactrophora dominans Westwood, 1842 (Insecta, Orthoptera, Caelifera, Romaleidae) from Brazil. Check List, 17(3), 895–903. Available at http://checklist.pensoft.net/article/63203/
  • Westwood, J.O. (1842) Plate XVII. Illustrations of two rostrated Locustidae. Arcana Entomologica or Illustrations of New, Rare and Interesting Insects, 1(5), 65–66, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44314#page/107/mode/1up
  • 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:

From Latin baculum, stick or rod, and Greek φορᾱ́, carrying, alluding to the peculiar fastigium.

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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
species2024