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Orthoptera Species File
Tribe

Dictyophorini Kirby, 1902

Type

type genus of Dictyophorini Kirby, 1902

Nomenclature (14)

  • Dictyophorini Kirby, 1902

    type genus Dictyophorus Thunberg, 1815

  • Dictyophorinae Kirby, 1902 (not Latin)

    type genus Dictyophorus Thunberg, 1815

  • Dictyophorini Kirby, 1902 in Otte, 1994: 62.
  • Dictyophorini Kirby, 1902 in Zahid, Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2021: 107.

References (10)

  • Kirby, W.F. (1902) List of a small collection of orthopterous insects formed by Sir Harry Johnston in British East Africa and Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with descriptions of five new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1902(1), 93–101. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98524#page/131/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Knipper, H. (1961) Geradflügler aus Ostafrika (Orthopteroida, Dermapteroida und Blattopteroida). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 11(3-4), 356–413. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/506
  • 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. (1964) Pamphagidae Burmeister, 1840, and Pyrgomorphiae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874: proposed addition to the official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, and further proposals arising therefrom (Insecta: Orthoptera). Z.N. (S). 1650. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 21(5), 377–385. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44463#page/415/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1969) The type-species of Poekilocerus Audinet-Serville, 1831 and Zonocerus Stal, 1873 (Insecta, Orthoptera, Pyrgomorphidae) and revised proposals in respect of associated family-group names Z.N.(S.) 1650. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 26, 72–77. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44468#page/92/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1975) Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects. E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon, 1–171 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
  • Zahid, S., Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2021) Molecular phylogeny of the grasshopper family Pyrgomorphidae (Caelifera, Orthoptera) reveals rampant paraphyly and convergence of traditionally used taxonomic characters. Zootaxa, 4969(1), 101–118.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Tribe1023
Genus50510
Subgenus2035
Species1305063
Subspecies1207183