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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Kuantania Miller, 1935

Type

Kuantania squamipennis Miller, 1935 type species by original monotypy of Kuantania Miller, 1935

Nomenclature (8)

  • Kuantania Miller, 1935: 691.

    type species by original monotypy Kuantania squamipennis Miller, 1935

  • Kuantania Miller, 1935 in Willemse, 1957: 326.
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  • Kuantania Miller, 1935 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 356.
  • Kuantania Miller, 1935 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 116, 119, 157.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Akbar, S.S. (1964) The Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), their systematics, tribal divisions and distribution. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1505–1536.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1963) The genus Kuantania Miller 1935, with a description of a new species from Indo-China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 41, 901–904.
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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.
  • Miller, N.C.E. (1935) XLIV. New and little known Malayan Acrididae. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, 17(4), 686–709, 1 plate.
  • 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.
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1957) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera) (contd.). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 10, 227–500.
  • 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:

Named after Kuantan in Malaysia where the originally only species was found.

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
genus1001
species2002