genus

Paramastax Burr, 1899

Type

Mastax nigra Scudder, 1875 type species by original designation of Paramastax Burr, 1899

Nomenclature (19)

Paramastax Burr, 1899: 90, 94, 268.
type species by original designation Mastax nigra Scudder, 1875
Paramastax Burr, 1899 in Bruner, 1901: 19, 20.
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Paramastax Burr, 1899 in Porras, 2011
Paramastax Burr, 1899 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 80-83.

Nomenclature references (15)

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
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
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Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.

de Saussure, H. (1903) Analecta entomologica. II. Notice sur la tribu des Eumastaciens. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 11, 43–112. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37620#page/55/mode/1up

de Saussure, H. (1903) Diagnosen von 4 neuen Gattungen der Eumastaciden (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 26, 412–415. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95259#page/432/mode/1up

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) Diagnoses et signalisations d'Eumastacoidea (Orth.) IV. Amérique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 9(4), 943–973. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61278428/f446.item

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

Hebard, M. (1923) Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia. Third paper. Orthopterous family Acrididae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 49(3), 165–313. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4259_003#page/3/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1924) Studies in the Acrididae of Panama (Orth.). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 50(2), 75–140. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4260_002#page/3/mode/1up

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.

Porras, M.F. (2011) Una vibrante y luminosa combinación de colores: nuevas especies de saltamontes payaso Paramastax (Orthoptera: Eumastacidae). Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 37(1), 140–144.

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.

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
Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Reference to similarity to genus Eumastax (replacement name of Mastax).

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	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
genus	1	0	1	2
species	15	0	16	31