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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Caprorhinus Saussure, 1899

Type

type species by original monotypy of Caprorhinus Saussure, 1899

Nomenclature (15)

  • Caprorhinus Saussure, 1899: 641.

    type species by original monotypy Caprorhinus fusiformis Saussure, 1899

  • Caprorhinus Saussure, 1899 in Bolívar, 1905: 280.
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  • Caprorhinus Saussure, 1899 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 127.
  • Caprorhinus Saussure, 1899 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 80, 153.

References (15)

  • 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
  • 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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  • Descamps, M. & Wintrebert, D. (1966) Pyrgomorphidae et Acrididae de Madagascar. Observations biologiques et diagnoses (Orth. Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 42, 41–263. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/162396
  • Dirsh, V.M. & Descamps, M. (1968) Insectes. Orthoptères, Acridoidea. Pyrgomorphidae et Acrididae. Faune de Madagascar, 26, 1–312.
  • 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. (1956) 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. (1963) Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) described by Lawrence Bruner from Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 32, 145–152.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1929) Three new grasshoppers of the genus Caprorhinus Saussure from Madgascar (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 4, 284–287.
  • 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) 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:

From Greek κάπρος (boar) and ῥῑ́ς (nose).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species280129