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genus

Macroleptea Kevan, 1962

Type

Pyrgomorpha laevigata Werner, 1914 type species by original designation of Macroleptea Kevan, 1962

Nomenclature (7)

  • Macroleptea Kevan, 1962: 117.

    type species by original designation Pyrgomorpha laevigata Werner, 1914

  • Macroleptea Kevan, 1962 in Johnston, 1968: 117.
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  • Macroleptea Kevan, 1962 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 384.
  • Macroleptea Kevan, 1962 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 50, 99, 158.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Fishelson, L. (1985) Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea, 3, 1–240.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1962) A revision of the tribe Pygomorphini, other than Pyrgomorpha and the flightless genera (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 60, 113–161.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from Leptea Bolívar, 1904 and alluding to the long wings.

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