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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Prosphena Bolívar, 1884

Type

Prosphena scudderi Bolívar, 1884 type species by original monotypy of Prosphena Bolívar, 1884

Nomenclature (9)

  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884: 446.

    type species by original monotypy Prosphena scudderi Bolívar, 1884

  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884 in Rehn, 1951: 243.
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  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884 in Rowell, 2013: 53.
  • Prosphena Bolívar, 1884 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 16, 166.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • 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
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1978) The American Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 36(1-4), 3–28. [1977] Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/41722
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Singh, A. & Akbar, S.S. (1964) A revision of the Mexican Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). I. Genera other than Sphenarium. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 116, 231–298.
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1951) The tribal position of certain genera of the Pyrgomorphinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomological News, 62(8), 241–244. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20188#page/283/mode/1up
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from group Sphenariae Bolívar, 1884 (based on Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845).

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
genus1001
species1012