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Genus

Acheta Fabricius, 1775

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Acheta Fabricius, 1775

Nomenclature (32)

  • Acheta Linnaeus, 1758: 428.
  • Acheta Fabricius, 1775: 279.

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus (Acheta) domesticus Linnaeus, 1758

  • Acheta Fabricius, 1775 in Rentz & Su, 2019: 64-68.
  • Acheta Fabricius, 1775 in Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020: 277.

References (26)

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  • Fabricius, J.C. (1775) Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae, in officina libraria Kortii, 832 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400
  • Fabricius, J.C. (1787) Mantissa insectorvm sistens eorvm species nvper detectas adiectis characteribvs genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibvs, observationibvs. Tom. I. Hafniae (C.G. Proft), Copenhagen, 348 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44030#page/7/mode/1up
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  • Uvarov, B.P. (1935) Three new grasshoppers from South-eastern Tibet (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 15, 192–196.
  • Roberts, H.R. (1941) Nomenclature in the Orthoptera concerning genotype designations. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 67, 1–34. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4277_001#page/3/mode/1up
  • International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (1954) Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of generic names Tettigonia and Acrida in the order Orthoptera (Class Insecta) as from Linnaeus, 1758. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 8, 211–235. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107761#page/231/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1955) A note on the name of the common house cricket Acheta domesticus (Linne, 1758) (Orth., Gryllidae). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 91, 108–109.
  • Chopard, L. (1961) Les divisions du genre Gryllus basées sur l'étude de l'appareil copulateur (Orth. Gryllidae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 37(3), 267–287. [1960] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/157258
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  • Defaut, B. (2001) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 85 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 280 pp. [in Russian]
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2019) Preliminary hypothesis on the history of Gryllinae (Orthoptera: Gryllinae) in America and new taxa of both the subtribe Anurogryllina and the genus Megalogryllus. Amurian Zoological Journal, 11(4), 279–308. Available at http://azjournal.ru/index.php/azjournal/article/view/393/488
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & García García, A. (2020) Studies in Colombian Ensifera and adjacent countries: Gigagryllus, a new genus of giant field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with comments on current Neotropical field crickets classification. Zootaxa, 4830(2), 273–290.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin ācheta (cicada), from Ancient Greek ἀχέτης (akhétēs).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species1712644