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Orthoptera Species File
Family

Eumastacidae Burr, 1899

saltamontes payaso; monkey grasshoppers

Type

type genus of Eumastacidae Burr, 1899

Nomenclature (42)

  • Mastacinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (not Latin)

    type genus Mastax Perty, 1832

  • Mastaces Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893: 115. (not Latin)

    type genus Mastax Perty, 1832

  • Eumastacidae Burr, 1899 in Flook, Klee & Rowell, 2000
  • Eumastacidae Burr, 1899 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 45-94.

References (36)

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  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1897) Viaggio del Dott. A. Borelli nel Chaco Boliviano e nella Republica Argentina. X. Ortotteri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 12(302), 1–47. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43370#page/241/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1898) The Acridian subfamily Mastacinae in the United States and Canada. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 8, 179. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44238#page/199/mode/1up
  • 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
  • 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. (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. (1952) The Grasshoppers and Locusts (Acridoidea) of Australia. I. Families Tetrigidae and Eumastacidae. CSIRO, Melbourne, 1–326 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1954) A small collection of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) from the agricultural department, Bangkok Thailand. Natural History Bulletin, 16, 45–47.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Phipps, J. (1958) The structure of the ovaries and eggs of some Eumastacidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 94, 65–66.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1961) A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 10(9), 351–419. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2242565
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1961) A monograph of the Orthoptera of North America (north of Mexico). Volume 1. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 12, 1–255.
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • 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
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 118, 1–216.
  • Strohecker, H.F., Middlekauff, W.W. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1968) The grasshoppers of California (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 10, 1–177. Available at http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis10.pdf
  • Podgornaya, L.I. (1971) Anatomical features of Gomphomastax clavata Ostr. (Orthoptera: Eumastacidae) as compared to Acrididae. Entomological Review, Washington, 50, 299–302.
  • Blackith, R.E. (1973) Clues to the mesozoic evolution of the Eumastacidae. Acrida, 2, 1, V-XVIII.
  • Descamps, M. (1973) Révision des Eumastacoidea (Orthoptera) aux échelons des familles et des sous-familles (genitalia, répartition, phylogénie). Acrida, 2, 161–298.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1975) Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects. E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon, 1–171 pp.
  • Descamps, M. (1979) Eumastacoidea néotropicaux. Diagnoses, signalisations, notes biologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 15(1), 117–155. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6127890b/f128.item
  • 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.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1996) Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia. CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1–284.
  • 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.
  • Perez-Gelabert, D.E. (1999) Saltamontes eumastacidos de la Republica Dominicana. Novitates Caribaea, 1, 53–57. Available at http://novitatescaribaea.do/index.php/novitates/issue/view/13/Novitates%20Caribaea%20No.%201%20PDF%20%E2%96%BC
  • 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.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 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
Family1034
Subfamily801018
Tribe5005
Genus515763
Subgenus0022
Superspecies6006
Species24810138396
Subspecies1501429