Genus

Temnomastax Rehn & Rehn, 1942

Type

type species by original designation of Temnomastax Rehn & Rehn, 1942

Temnomastax Rehn & Rehn, 1942: 9.
type species by original designation Masyntes tigris Burr, 1899
Temnomastax Rehn & Rehn, 1942 in Rehn, 1948: 116.

Temnomastax Rehn & Rehn, 1942 in Olivier & Aranda, 2018
Temnomastax Rehn & Rehn, 1942 in Olivier, Pujol-Luz & Gracicolli, 2019: 9, 69.

Rehn, J.A.G. & Rehn, J.W.H. (1942) A review of the New World Eumasticinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Part II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 94, 1–88, 2 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=n-GUflvVe4EC
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

Olivier, R.da S. & Aranda, R. (2018) Are anatomical measurements useful for interspecific and sexual differentiation of Temnomastax (Orthoptera: Eumastacidae) species? Zoological Science, 35(3), 268–275.
Olivier, R.da S., Pujol-Luz, C.V.A. & Gracicolli, G. (2019) Review of Temnomastax Rehn & Rehn, 1942 (Orthoptera, Caelifera, Eumastacidae, Temnomastacinae). Zootaxa, 4593(1), 1–78.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Greek τέμνω = stump, and the generic name Mastax, in allusion to the relatively truncate fastigium.