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genus

Pyrgomorpha Serville, 1838

Type

Acrydium conicum Olivier, 1791 type species by subsequent designation of Pyrgomorpha Serville, 1838

Nomenclature (36)

  • Truxalis (Pyrgomorpha) Serville, 1838: 583.

    type species by subsequent designation Acrydium conicum Olivier, 1791 in Kirby, 1910: 324

  • Pyrgomorpha Serville, 1838 in Bolívar, 1876: 283.
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  • Pyrgomorpha Serville, 1838 in Zahid, Mariño-Pérez, Amehmood, Muhammad & Song, 2020: 391.
  • Pyrgomorpha Serville, 1838 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 94, 99, 103, 110, 167.

Nomenclature references (36)

  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1876) Sinopsis de los Ortópteros de España y Portugal. Segunda parte. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 5, 259–372. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1128
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  • 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
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et dermaptères. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 3, 212 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1093568
  • Defaut, B. & Morichon, D. (2015) Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 97, Issue 1a,b, 695 pp. + XXI plates.
  • Defaut, B. (1988) Determination des Orthopteroides ouest-paleactiques, 3. Le genre Pyrgomorha au Maroc (Caelifera: Pyrgomorphidae). L’Entomologiste, 44(1), 35–45.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) In La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac. 85 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (2017) Révision taxinomique des Orthoptères du Maghreb. 1. Espèces et sous-espèces du genre Pyrgomorpha Serville (Caelifera, Pyrgomorphidae). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 22, 21–69.
  • Fishelson, L. (1985) Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea, 3, 1–240.
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • Hsiung, C. (1979) A critical examination Pyrgomorpha species (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Dissertation Abstr. int. (B), 40(6), 2515.
  • Jacobson, G.G. (1905) Orthoptera. In Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg. pp. 6–466. [1902]
  • Jago, N.D. (1964) Aspects of the ecology and distribution of grasshoppers in Ghana as a contribution to the zoogeography of West Africa. Journal of the West Africa Science Association, 8(2), 190–204.
  • 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. & Hsiung, C. (1988) The Palaearctic species of Pyrgomorpha Audinet-Serville, 1838 other than the P. conica-group. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphide, Pyrgomorphini). I. Biocosme Mésogéen, 5(3-4), 53–76.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Hsiung, C. (1989) The Palaearctic species of Pyrgomorpha Audinet-Serville, 1838 other than the P. conica-group. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae, Pyrgomorphini). II. Biocosme Mésogéen, 6(3), 117–152.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1961) Spurious records of the genus Pyrgomorpha Audinet-Serville, 1839 in the Americas (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 63, 13–16. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55154#page/25/mode/1up
  • 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. (1971) The type-species of the genus Pyrgomorpha Audinet-Serville and proposed neotypes for Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier) and some of its synonyms (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Journal of Entomology, 40, 185–194.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1890) On the employment of names proposed for genera of Orthoptera, previous to 1840. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 556–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95855#page/572/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) In Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London. 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314
  • 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]
  • Tarbinsky, S.P. (1940) In The Saltatorian Orthopterous Insects of the Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. [in Russian]. Acad. Sci. Azyerbaidjankoi S.S.R., Moscow-Leningrad. 245 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From πύργος, tower, and μορφή, form, possibly referring to the prominent shape of fastigium.

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