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Orthoptera Species File
subgenus

Taphronota (Taphronota) Stål, 1873

Type

Poecilocerus [sic] porosus Stål, 1855 type species by original designation of Taphronota (Taphronota) Stål, 1873

Nomenclature (12)

  • Taphronota Stål, 1873: 51.

    type species by original designation Poecilocerus [sic] porosus Stål, 1855

  • Taphronota Stål, 1873 in Bolívar, 1904: 394.
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  • Taphronota (Taphronota) Stål, 1873 in Kevan, 1977: 291.
  • Taphronota (Taphronota) Stål, 1873 in Otte, 1994: 137.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). IV. Taphronotinae. V. Phymateinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 393–418. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/417/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1938) La biologie des Orthoptères. Encyclopédie entomologique, 20(4), 541 pp.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 1. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 10–305.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1907) Ortotteri Africani. Parte I Acridoidea. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 22(554), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43468#page/41/mode/1up
  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1907) Spedizione al Ruwenzori di S.A.R. Luigi Amedeo di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi. XVI: Ortotteri nuovi (diagnose preventive). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 22(547), 1–3. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43468#page/12/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1963) The genus Pyrgophyma Giglio-Tos, 1907 (Acridoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 32, 108–110.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1975) A revision of the genus Taphronota Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 88, 79–149. [1974]
  • 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.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 7. Acridiodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 149–199. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/265/mode/1up
  • Stål, C. (1873) Orthoptera nova descriptist. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlinger, 30(4), 39–53. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100494#page/223/mode/1up

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek τάφρος, fosse or groove, probably alluding to the pronotum with many grooves between the tubercles.

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
subgenus1034
species60915
subspecies404650