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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Tanita Bolívar, 1904

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Tanita Bolívar, 1904

Nomenclature (18)

  • Tanita Bolívar, 1904: 446.

    type species by subsequent designation Pyrgomorpha breviceps Bolívar, 1882 in Kirby, 1910

  • Protagasta Bolívar, 1908: 91.

    type species by original monotypy Protagasta rosea Bolívar, 1908

  • Tanita Bolívar, 1904 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 147.
  • Tanita Bolívar, 1904 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 172.

References (14)

  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). II. Sphenariinae, III. Tapesinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 306–328. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/330/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1908) Acridiens d'Afrique du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 16, 83–126. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40991#page/107/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
  • Waterhouse & Sharp, D. (1912) Index zool., 2.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1953) Some effects of past climatic changes on the distribution of African Acrididae. Trans. Congr. Ent. Amsterdam, 2, 157–159.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • 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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 1. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 10–305.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species90918
Subspecies60713