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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Cawendia Karsch, 1888

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Cawendia Karsch, 1888

Nomenclature (12)

  • Cawendia Karsch, 1888: 343.

    type species by subsequent designation Cawendia glabrata Karsch, 1888 in Karsch, 1896

  • Cawendia Karsch, 1888 in Karsch, 1896: 169, 272.
  • Cawendia Karsch, 1888 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 58.
  • Cawendia Karsch, 1888 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 31, 153.

References (12)

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1896) Neue Orthopteren aus dem tropischen Afrika. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 57, 242–359. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36013#page/250/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1956) Flightless African genera of pyrgomorphine grasshoppers allied, or superficially similar, to Parasphena I. Bolivar, 1884, and Pyrgomorphella I. Bolivar, 1904, with description of certain new forms. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 29, 109–133.
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1951) The tribal position of certain genera of the Pyrgomorphinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomological News, 62(8), 241–244. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20188#page/283/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1953) Records and descriptions of Pyrgomorphinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae), with critical notes on certain genera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 79(3), 99–150.
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 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:

Named after Kawende, where the two species were found.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1045