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Orthoptera Species File
Subfamily

Episactinae Burr, 1899

Type

type genus of Episactinae Burr, 1899

Nomenclature (24)

  • Episactinae Burr, 1899

    type genus Episactus Burr, 1899

  • Episactini Burr, 1899

    type genus Episactus Burr, 1899

  • Episactinae Burr, 1899 in Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006: 192, 229.
  • Episactinae Burr, 1899 in Rowell, 2013: 43.

References (16)

  • 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
  • Burr, M. (1904) Orthoptera Fam. Eumastacidae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. 1–23, pl 1. [1903] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105399#page/13/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, C. (1930) Monografía de los eumastácidos (Orth. Acrid.). Primera Parte. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 46, xxxii, 380 pp. Available at http://simurg.bibliotecas.csic.es/viewer/image/CSIC000279715/1/
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Rehn, J.W.H. (1934) The Eumasticinae (Orthopt., Acrididae) of southern Mexico and Central America. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, 8, 84 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118936#page/9/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Rehn, J.W.H. (1939) A review of the New World Eumastacinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Part I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 91, 165–206.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1948) The Acridoid family Eumastacidae (Orthoptera). A review of our knowledge of its components, features and systematics, with a suggested new classification of its major groups. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 100, 77–139. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=w4Y4UsJXKHwC
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 1, 1–400 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224096#page/9/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1958) The phallic complex in the subfamilies of New World Eumastacidae and the family Tanaoceridae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 110, 301–319.
  • Descamps, M. (1971) Les Eumastacidae de Colombie. Revision des Paramastacinae et Eumastacinae (Acridomorpha, Eumastacoidea). Caldasia, 11(51), 99–192. Available at http://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/43969
  • Descamps, M. (1973) Révision des Eumastacoidea (Orthoptera) aux échelons des familles et des sous-familles (genitalia, répartition, phylogénie). Acrida, 2, 161–298.
  • Descamps, M. (1974) Quelques nouveaux Episactinae des genres Lethus et Gymnotettis (Orth. Eumastacoidea Episactidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 10(3), 553–559. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6127723k/f66.item
  • 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.
  • Perez-Gelabert, D.E., Hierro, B. & Otte, D. (1997) Espagnolopsis and Espagnolina, two new genera of eumastacid grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Eumastacidae: Episactinae) from Hispaniola. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 153–160.
  • Perez-Gelabert, D.E., Hierro, B., Dominici, G.O. & Otte, D. (1997) New eumastacid grasshopper taxa (Orthoptera: Eumastacidae: Episactinae) from the Dominican Republic, including a fossil new genus and species from Dominican amber. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 139–151.
  • 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) The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society, 611 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subfamily1034
Tribe0000
Genus5139
Species291333
Subspecies2035