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genus

Megacephalacris Descamps & Amédégnato, 1971

Type

Ommatolampis pugnax Gerstaecker, 1873 type species by original designation of Megacephalacris Descamps & Amédégnato, 1971

Nomenclature (7)

  • Megacephalacris Descamps & Amédégnato, 1971: 134.

    type species by original designation Ommatolampis pugnax Gerstaecker, 1873

  • Megacephalacris Descamps & Amédégnato, 1971 in Amédégnato, 1974: 199.
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  • Megacephalacris Descamps & Amédégnato, 1971 in Cardona, 2012: 24-25.
  • Megacephalacris Descamps & Amédégnato, 1971 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015: 156-157.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
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  • Cardona, J.M. (2012) In Grasshoppers of Northwest South America. A Photo Guide. Volume 1 - The Western Fauna. 124 pp.
  • Descamps, M. & Amédégnato, C. (1971) Contribution à la faune des Acridoidea de Colombie (missions M. Descamps). 2. Les genres Taeniophora Stal 1873 et Megacephlacris, nov. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 7(1), 115–146. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61402645/f122.item
  • Descamps, M. (1978) La faune dendrophile neotropicale II. Revue de Taeniophorini et Ophthalmolampini (Orth. Romaleidae). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris (Zoologie 3e serie), 517 (Zool. 355), 371–476. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/265607#page/4/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • 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.
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Rank Total Valid Invalid
genus110
species211
subspecies422