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genus

Mekongiana Uvarov, 1940

Type

type species by original monotypy of

Nomenclature (15)

  • Mekongia Uvarov, 1925: 314. (homonym)

    type species by original monotypy Mekongia gregoryi Uvarov, 1925

  • Mekongia Uvarov, 1925 (homonym of Mekongia Cross & Fisher, 1876)
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  • Mekongiana Uvarov, 1940 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 111, 159.
  • Mekongiana Uvarov, 1940 in Yu, Huang, Wang, Li & Mao, 2025: 519.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Huang, C. (1990) A new genus of Acridoidea from Hengduan Mountains (Orthotpera: Acrididae, Pyrgomorphinae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 33(2), 230–233. Available at http://www.insect.org.cn/EN/abstract/abstract13106.shtml
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1966) A revision of known Asiatic Sphenariini (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae) with the erection of a new genus. The Canadian Entomologist, 98(12), 1275–1283.
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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.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) Orthoptera (except Blattidae) collected by Prof. Gregory's expedition to Yunnan. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 20, 313–335. [1924]
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 112–117.
  • 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.
  • Yu, H.-L., Huang, Z.-P., Wang, X., Li, F.-T. & Mao, B.-Y. (2025) Taxonomy of the Paramekongiella (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 5569(3), 509–520. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.6

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from replaced name Mekongia Uvarov, 1925, referring to the Mekong Valley where the type species was found.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1012
species2013