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Orthoptera Species File
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).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1012
species1501631