Skip to main content
Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Poekilocerus Serville, 1831

Type

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

References (32)

  • 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
  • Klug, J.C.F. (1832) Icon. Descript. Ins. Afr. bor., Asia. In Symbolae Physicae Zool.: Vol. 2 (Ins. 3). Berlin.
  • 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
  • Percheron, A.R. (1836) 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.
  • 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
  • Percheron, A.R. (1838) Table alphabetigue.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bordas, L. (1898) L'appareil digestif des orthoptères. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 8(5).
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London, 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Shumakov, E.M. (1963) Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 49, 3–248. [in Russian]
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology. Cambridge University Press, London, Vol. 1, 481 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
  • Fishelson, L. (1985) Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea, 3, 1–240.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Usmani, M.K. (2008) Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa, 1946, 1–41.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

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

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1067
Species501217
Subspecies302629