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Nomenclature (7)

  • Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964: 111.

    type species by original designation Malagasphena minor Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964

  • Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964 in Johnston, 1968: 87.
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  • Malagasplena [sic] Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964 (misspelling of Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964) in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 389.
  • Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 80, 158.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 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 distribution on Madagascar and ending of other generic names in Pyrgomorphidae.

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
species1001