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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845

Type

type species by original monotypy of Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845

Nomenclature (20)

  • Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845

    type species by original monotypy Sphenarium purpurascens Charpentier, 1845

  • Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845 in Thomas, 1873: 199.
  • Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 16, 170.
  • Sphenarium Charpentier, 1845 in Ramírez-Delgado, Serrano-Meneses & Castillo, 2025

References (20)

  • von Charpentier, T. (1845) Orthoptera descripta et depicta [1841-1845]. L. Woss, Lipsiae [Leipzig], 120 pp. (non numerate). Available at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuc.2859184
  • Thomas, C. (1873) Part II: Acrididae of North America not found in the United States. In Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 5, pp. 191–262. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18502#page/207/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Bruner, L. (1906) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 177–208. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm
  • 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
  • Banerjee, S.K. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1962) Notes on the morphology of Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 38(3), 415–433. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/157922
  • Márquez Mayaudón, C. (1962) Estudio de las especies del género Sphenarium basado en sus genitalia (Acrididae, Orthoptera) con la descripción de una especie nueva. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Serie Zoologia, 33, 235–245.
  • 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1969) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae. Part I. General introduction. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 44, 165–266. [1968] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/163837
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1974) The concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth. Acridoidea). Part V. Tribes Schulthessiini, Taphronotini, Dictyophorini, Tagastini, Pseudomorphacridini, Atractomorphini, Spenariini and Omurini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 48, 203–294, pl. 1–7. [1972] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/164750
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Pedraza-Lara, C., Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y. & Zaldívar-Riverón, A. (2015) Montane and coastal species diversification in the economically important Mexican grasshopper genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 84, 220–231. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790315000020#
  • Sanabria-Urbán, S., Song, H., Oyama, K., González-Rodríguez, A., Serrano-Meneses, M.A. & Cueva del Castillo, R. (2015) Body size adaptations to altitudinal climatic variation in neotropical grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). PLoS One, 10(12 e0145248). Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0145248
  • Sanabria-Urbán, S. (2017) Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium Charpentier, 1842 (Orthoptera; Pyrgomorphidae). Metaleptea, 37(1), 26–28.
  • Sanabria-Urbán, S., Song, H., Oyama, K., González-Rodríguez, A. & Cueva del Castillo, R. (2017) Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic diversity in neotropical grasshoppers: taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution of the genus Sphenarium Charpentier, 1842 (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Zootaxa, 4274(1), 1–86.
  • 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.
  • Ramírez-Delgado, V.H., Serrano-Meneses, M.A. & Cueva del Castillo, R. (2025) A macroevolutionary perspective of cryptic coloration in sexually dichromatic grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). Oecologia, 207(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05643-7

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek σφήν, wedge, alluding to the wedge-shaped body.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1701532