Type

Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964 type species by original designation of Somalopyrgus Kevan & Akbar, 1964

Nomenclature (7)

  • Somalopyrgus Kevan & Akbar, 1964: 1505, 1529.

    type species by original designation Somalopyrgus rotundipennis Kevan & Akbar, 1964

  • Somalopyrgus Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Johnston, 1968: 110.
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  • Somalopyrgus Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 136.
  • Somalopyrgus Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 31, 170.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Akbar, S.S. (1964) The Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), their systematics, tribal divisions and distribution. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1505–1536.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 distribution in Somalia and family name Pyrgomorphidae.

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