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Orthoptera Species File
Subgenus

Taphronota (Taphronota) Stål, 1873

Type

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

References (11)

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chopard, L. (1938) La biologie des Orthoptères. Encyclopédie entomologique, 20(4), 541 pp.
  • 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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1966) Acridoidea of Angola 1. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 74, 10–305.
  • 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.

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.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subgenus1034
Species60915
Subspecies404650