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.

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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.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
genus	1	0	1	2
subgenus	2	0	3	5
species	19	0	31	50
subspecies	30	0	69	99