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family

Episactidae Burr, 1899

Type

Episactus Burr, 1899 type genus of Episactidae Burr, 1899

Nomenclature (6)

  • Episactidae Burr, 1899

    type genus Episactus Burr, 1899

  • Episactidae Burr, 1899 in Descamps, 1973: 200.
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  • Episactidae Burr, 1899 in Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006
  • Episactidae Burr, 1899 in Rowell, 2013: 42.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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
  • Descamps, M. (1973) Révision des Eumastacoidea (Orthoptera) aux échelons des familles et des sous-familles (genitalia, répartition, phylogénie). Acrida, 2, 161–298.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • 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.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. & Perez-Gelabert, D.E. (2006) The status of the Espagnolinae (Rehn 1948) and other subfamilies of the Episactidae (Descamps 1973) (Eumastacoidea, Caelifera, Orthoptera), with description of two new genera, Paralethus and Neibamastax. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(2), 191–240. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282006%2915%5B191%3ATSOTER%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
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Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Herbivorous

Episactidae Burr, 1899

Stats

Names
Rank Total Valid Invalid
family110
subfamily1248
tribe734
genus25196
species77698
subspecies523