family
Morabidae Rehn, 1948
Type
Moraba Walker, 1870 type genus of Morabidae Rehn, 1948
Nomenclature (4)
- Morabidae Rehn, 1948: 110.
type genus Moraba Walker, 1870
- Morabidae Rehn, 1948 in Descamps, 1973: 206-208.
- Morabidae Rehn, 1948 in Kevan, 1982: 369.
- Morabidae Rehn, 1948 in Otte, 1994: 50.
Nomenclature references (4)
- Descamps, M. (1973) Révision des Eumastacoidea (Orthoptera) aux échelons des familles et des sous-familles (genitalia, répartition, phylogénie). Acrida, 2, 161–298.
- 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.
- 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
Aggregate (Asserted distribution & Georeference)
Descendants and synonyms
- Morabidae Rehn, 1948
- Biroellinae Bolívar, 1930
- =Biroellidae Bolívar, 1930
- =Biroellini Bolívar, 1930
- Morabinae Rehn, 1948
- Biroellinae Bolívar, 1930
Life zone and ecology data
Terrestrial. Herbivorous, cryptic stick mimics.
Stats
Names | |||
---|---|---|---|
Rank | Total | Valid | Invalid |
family | 1 | 1 | 0 |
subfamily | 4 | 2 | 2 |
tribe | 6 | 5 | 1 |
genus | 43 | 42 | 1 |
species | 167 | 123 | 44 |
subspecies | 10 | 8 | 2 |