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Atractomorpha similis Bolívar, 1884

Northern Grass Pyrgomorph

Nomenclature (26)

  • Atractomorpha similis Bolívar, 1884: 64, 68. (valid)

    Syntype; female; ab6451ee-aab3-4679-8335-2842cfe21330; deposited at: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS); Maluku

  • Atractomorpha similis Bolívar, 1884 in Karsch, 1888: 332.
  • Atractomorpha australiana Bolívar, 1905 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 78.
  • Atractomorpha similis Bolívar, 1884 in Rentz, Lewis, Su & Upton, 2003: 57, 371-372.

References (19)

  • Blanchard, C.É. (1853) Insectes: Ordre des Orthoptères. In Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l' Océanie sur les Corvettes l' Astrolabe et la Zélée exècuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840. Gide et Cie., Paris. pp. Zoologie 4, Part 1, 349–376, pl. 1–3. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=EWABAAAAQAAJ
  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/mode/1up
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1888) Beiträge zu Bolivar's Monografia de los Pirgomorfinos. Entomologische Nachrichten, 14(21), 328–335, 340–346, 355–361. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42933
  • Burr, M. (1903) Orthoptera. In The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes: Being the Account of the Work Carried on and of the Collections Made by an Expedition During the Years 1899 and 1900. John Stanley Gardiner (Ed.), University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 1, 234–236 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41855#page/24/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1905) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). X. Subfam. Atractomorphinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 5, 196–217. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17794#page/202/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1930) List of the species of Acridiidae occuring in Sumatra and adjacent islands. In Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. Vol. 73, pp. 207–210. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89680#page/331/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1963) Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the collection of C. P. Thunberg, Uppsala, with notes on type material of the species represented. Arkiv för Zoologi, 16(4), 69–96.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Chen, Y. (1969) A revised synopsis of the genus Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862 (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae), with an account of the African aberrans-group. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 48, 141–198.
  • Key, K.H.L. (1969) The primary types of the Australian Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology, 17, 353–414.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1971) The synonymy and distribution of the crenaticeps-group of Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862 (Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 50(2), 143–159.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1974) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth. Acridoidea). Part V. Tribes Schulthessiini, Taphronotini, Dictyophorini, Tagastini, Pseudomorphacridini, Atractomorphini, Spenariini and Omurini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 48, 203–294, pl. 1–7. [1972] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/164750
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Key, K.H.L. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1980) A revision of the Australian Atractomorpini (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 28(5-6), 717–773.
  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • Key, K.H.L. (1986) A provisional synonomic list of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 24, 1–47.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1996) Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia. CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1–284.
  • 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.
  • Rentz, D.C.F., Lewis, R.C., Su, Y.N. & Upton, M.S. (2003) A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts. Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, v-ix, 1–419.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1012