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genus

Poekilocerus Serville, 1831

Type

Gryllus pictus Fabricius, 1775 type species by subsequent designation of Poekilocerus Serville, 1831

Nomenclature (38)

  • Poekilocerus Serville, 1831: 275.

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus pictus Fabricius, 1775 in Kirby, 1910

  • Decticus Klug, 1832: 1. (homonym)
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  • Poekilocerus Serville, 1831 in Zahid, Mariño-Pérez, Amehmood, Muhammad & Song, 2020: 392.
  • Poekilocerus Serville, 1831 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 32, 94, 103, 165.

Nomenclature references (32)

  • 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
  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). VI. Poecilocerinae. VII. Pyrgomorphinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 432–459. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/456/mode/1up
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  • Bordas, L. (1898) L'appareil digestif des orthoptères. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 8(5).
  • Brullé, G.A. (1835) Cinquième Ordre. Orthoptères. In Histoire naturelle des insectes: Vol. 9 [1] (5). Société bibliophile, Paris. pp. 1–225 [225–416 in 1836]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79090#page/9/mode/1up
  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kaukerfe, Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte: Vulgo Orthoptera). In Handbuch der Entomologie. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. Vol. 2, Issue I-VIII, 397–756 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25467340#page/13/mode/1up
  • China, W.E. (1972) Zoological nomenclature: announcement A. (N.S.) 85. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 46, 63. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/254683#page/65/mode/1up
  • Fishelson, L. (1985) Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea, 3, 1–240.
  • International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (1971) Opinion 969. Poekilocerus Audinet-Serville, 1831 (Insecta, Orthoptera): Designation of a type-species under the plenary powers together with validation of Pyrgomorphidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 28(3/4), 88–91. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12224617#page/109/mode/1up
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In 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. (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
  • Kirby, W.F. (1914) In Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London. 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Klug, J.C.F. (1832) Icon. Descript. Ins. Afr. bor., Asia. In Symbolae Physicae Zool.: Vol. 2 (Ins. 3). Berlin.
  • 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.
  • Percheron, A.R. (1836) In Genera des insectes ou exposition détaillée de tous les caractères propres a chacun des genres de cette clase d'animaux. Méquignon-Marvis, Paris. Vol. 3.
  • Percheron, A.R. (1838) Table alphabetigue.
  • Popov, G.B. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1979) A revision of the genus Poekilocerus Audinet-Serville 1831 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Pyrgomorphidae). Anti-Locust Bulletin, 51, 1–81.
  • Popov, G.B. (1997) Arabian grasshoppers (Orthoptera): Families Thericleidae (Eumastacoidea) and Pamphagidae and Pyrogomorphidae (Acridoidea). In Fauna of Saudi Arabia. Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Basel. Vol. 16, 111–168 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1902) Notes on some generic names employed by Serville, in the Revue Methodique, and Fieber, in the Synopsis du Europaischen Orthopteran. The Canadian Entomologist, 34(12), 316–317. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18808#page/332/mode/1up
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 pp.
  • Schaum, H.R. (1853) Ueber die von Peters mitgebrachten Orthoptera aus Mossambique. Uebersicht der von ihm in Mossambique beobachteten Orthopteren nebst Beschreibung der neu entdeckten Gattungen und Arten durch Herrn Dr. Hermann Schaum. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der königlich Preussischen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 2, 775–780. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109942#page/803/mode/1up
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1831) Revue méthodique des insectes de l'ordre des Orthoptères. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 22(86), 28–65, 134–167, 262–292. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29456
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyeiznogo Entomologicheskojo Obshchestva, Moskva [= Horae Societatis Entomologicae Unionis Soveticae], 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • Stål, C. (1855) Nya Orthoptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlinger, 12, 348–353. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54201#page/362/mode/1up
  • Stål, C. (1873) Orthoptera nova descriptist. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlinger, 30(4), 39–53. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100494#page/223/mode/1up
  • Usmani, M.K. (2008) Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa, 1946, 1–41.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) In Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology. Cambridge University Press, London. Vol. 1, 481 pp.
  • Westwood, J.O. (1841) Plate IV. Description of a new genus belonging to the family of the locusts. Arcana Entomologica or Illustrations of New, Rare and Interesting Insects, 1(1), 11–12, pl. 4. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44314#page/27/mode/1up
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.
  • Zahid, S., Mariño-Pérez, R., Amehmood, S.A., Muhammad, K. & Song, H. (2020) An illustrated key of Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of the Indian Subcontinent Region. Zootaxa, 4895(3), 381–397.
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Etymology:

From Greek ποικίλος, varied or variegated, and κεραίᾱ, antennae, referring to the two-colored antennae.

Poekilocerus Serville, 1831

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genus716
species17512
subspecies29326