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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Episactus Burr, 1899

Type

type species by original monotypy of Episactus Burr, 1899

Nomenclature (14)

  • Epeisactus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893: 115. (nomen nudum)
  • Epeisactus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (synonym of Episactus Burr, 1899)
  • Episactus Burr, 1899 in Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006: 192, 208, 229-240.
  • Episactus Burr, 1899 in Rowell, 2013: 43.

References (13)

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1893) Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13(33), 1–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25035
  • Zubovski, N. (1898) Zur Acridiodea-Fauna des asiatischen Russlands. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 3, 68–110. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35243#page/174/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Bruner, L. (1901) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 14–25. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1905) Notes on the Orthoptera of Costa Rica, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 57, 790–843. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30015#page/878/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Descamps, M. (1973) Révision des Eumastacoidea (Orthoptera) aux échelons des familles et des sous-familles (genitalia, répartition, phylogénie). Acrida, 2, 161–298.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
Genus1012
Species4015