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genus

Geloius Saussure, 1899

Type

Geloius nasutus Saussure, 1899 type species by original monotypy of Geloius Saussure, 1899

Nomenclature (12)

  • Geloius Saussure, 1899: 637.

    type species by original monotypy Geloius nasutus Saussure, 1899

  • Geloius Saussure, 1899 in Bolívar, 1905: 284.
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  • Geloius Saussure, 1899 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 302.
  • Geloius Saussure, 1899 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 80, 156.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Bolívar, I. (1905) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). XI. Subfam. Ortacrinae. XII. Subfam. Geloiinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 5, 278–289. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17794#page/284/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) The Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Madagascar III. Pyrgomorphidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 14, 51–103. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19401#page/65/mode/1up
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Singh, A. (1964) A new genus and two new species of Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from Madagascar, with notes on the genus Geloius Saussure. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 90, 111–129.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2023) Pyrgomorphidae Genera of the World: Key to Genera. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, Vol. 212, 1–185 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • Wintrebert, D. (1972) Nouvelles contributions à l'étude des Acridoidea malgaches (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 198, 1–129.
  • 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.
  • de Saussure, H. (1899) Orthoptera. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Reisen in Madagaskar und Ostafrika in den Jahren 1889-95 von Dr. A. Voeltzkow. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 21, 567–664. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85045#page/613/mode/1up
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Etymology:

From Greek γελοῖος, funny or ludicrous.

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genus110
species330