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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Yunnanites Uvarov, 1925

Type

type species by original monotypy of Yunnanites Uvarov, 1925

Nomenclature (11)

  • Yunnanites Uvarov, 1925: 314.

    type species by original monotypy Yunnanites coriacea Uvarov, 1925

  • Yunnanitis [sic] Uvarov, 1925 in Wu, 1935: 186.
  • Yunnanites Uvarov, 1925 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 111, 174.
  • Yunnanites Uvarov, 1925 in Yu, Huang, Wang, Li & Mao, 2025: 519.

References (10)

  • 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]
  • Wu, C.F. (1935) Catalogus Insectorum Sinensium. Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peiping, China, Vol. 1, iv+ 318 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mao, B.-Y. & Yang, Z. (2003) Description of a new species of Yunnanites and the female of Paramekongiella zhongdianensis (Orthoptera, Chrotogonidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 28(3), 485–487.
  • Mao, B.-Y., Ren, G.-D. & Ou, X.-H. (2011) Fauna, Distribution Pattern and Adaptability on Acridoidea from Yunnan. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 336 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.
  • 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:

After distribution of type species in Yunnan.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species3014