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genus

Pyrgohippus Dirsh, 1963

Type

type species by original designation of

Nomenclature (6)

  • Pyrgohippus Dirsh, 1963: 84.

    type species by original designation Pyrgohippus pallidus Dirsh, 1963

  • Pyrgohippus Dirsh, 1963 in Johnston, 1968: 125.
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  • Pyrgohippus Dirsh, 1963 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 601.
  • Pyrgohippus Dirsh, 1963 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 80, 167.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) 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:

Derived from Pyrgomorphidae and similar genus Gymnohippus Bruner, 1910

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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species2013