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Orthoptera Species File
Superfamily

Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899

monkey grasshoppers

Type

type genus of Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899

Nomenclature (22)

  • Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899

    type genus Eumastax Burr, 1899

  • Eumastacides [sic] Burr, 1899: 75, 79. (not Latin)

    type genus Eumastax Burr, 1899

  • Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899 in Song, Amédégnato, Cigliano, Desutter-Grandcolas, Heads, Huang, Otte & Whiting, 2015
  • Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899 in Schall, Husemann & Bonino, 2026: 269.

References (20)

  • Burr, M. (1899) Essai sur les Eumastacides tribu des Acridiodea. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 28, 75–112, 253–304, 345–350, 3 pls. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=1176
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1966) Some Orthoptera-Caelifera from the Philippine, Bismarck and Solomon Islands, with a few interesting records from New Guinea and the Moluccas. Entomologiske Meddelelser, 34, 375–420. Available at https://danbif.dk/research-files/litteratur/entomologiske-meddelelser/bind-34/kevan__d._k._m._1966.pdf
  • Descamps, M. (1973) Révision des Eumastacoidea (Orthoptera) aux échelons des familles et des sous-familles (genitalia, répartition, phylogénie). Acrida, 2, 161–298.
  • Descamps, M. (1977) Monographie des Thericleidae (Orthoptera Acridomorpha Eumastacoidea). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 216, 475 pp.
  • Mestre, J. (1988) Les acridiens des formations herbeuses d'Afrique de l'Ouest. CIRAD-PRIFAS, 330 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 2. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] A Eumastacoidea Trigonopterygoidea Pneumoroidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 162 pp.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. (1995) Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Eumastacoidea and Tetrigoidea. In Insects and macrofungi of Gutianshan, Zhejiang. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou. pp. 25–29.
  • Chen, Y. (1997) Elementary introduction of tetrigid, eumastacid and acridid. Entomological Knowledge, 34(4), 237–238.
  • Flook, P.K. & Rowell, C.H.F. (1997) The phylogeny of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) as deduced from mtrRNA gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 8, 89–103.
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University, 390 pp.
  • Eades, D.C. (2000) Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 9, 181–210.
  • Flook, P.K., Klee, S. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2000) Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Pneumoroidea (Orthoptera, Caelifera): molecular data resolve morphological character conflicts in the basal Acridomorpha. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 15(3), 345–354.
  • Zhong, Y., Xu, H., Lei, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (2002) Studies on the Tetrigoidea and Eumastacoidea of Hubei Province. Journal of central China Normal University (Natural Sciences), 36(4), Sum 104, 508–511.
  • Matt, S., Flook, P.K. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2008) A partial molecular phylogeny of the Eumastacoidea s. lat. (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 17(1), 43–55. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282008%2917%5B43%3AAPMPOT%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Song, H. (2010) Grasshopper systematics: past, present and future. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 19(1), 57–68. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.019.0112
  • Wang, X.-Y., Zhou, Z.-J., Huang, Y. & Shi, F. (2011) The phylogenetic relationships of higher orthopteran categories inferred from 18S gene sequences. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 36(3), 627–638. Available at http://www.zootax.com.cn/viewmulu_en.aspx?qi_id=656&mid=16712
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society, 611 pp.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Song, H., Amédégnato, C., Cigliano, M.M., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Heads, S.W., Huang, Y., Otte, D. & Whiting, M.F. (2015) 300 million years of diversification: elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling. Cladistics, 31, 621–651.
  • Schall, O.-K.O., Husemann, M. & Bonino, E. (2026) The first monkey hopper (Orthoptera, Eumastacoidea) from Eocene Baltic amber. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 35(2), 267–276. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.35.188742

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Superfamily1012
Family71412
Subfamily3003868
Tribe470552
Infratribe0000
Genus2741147332
Subgenus2046
Superspecies9009
Species1069184601547
Subspecies63043106