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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Amphiacusta Saussure, 1874

Type

type species by original designation of Amphiacusta Saussure, 1874

Nomenclature (13)

  • Amphiacusta Saussure, 1874: 444.

    type species by original designation Phalangopsis annulipes Serville, 1831 in Kirby, 1906

  • Amphiacustes [sic] Saussure, 1878: 429 [569].

    type species by original designation Phalangopsis annulipes Serville, 1831

  • Amphiacusta Saussure, 1874 in Bland & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2003: 120.
  • Amphiacusta Saussure, 1874 in Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009: 561.

References (12)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1874) Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. In Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale. Imprimerie Impériale, Paris. Vol. 6, 296–515 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=PVZSAAAAcAAJ
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1878) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. VI. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(2), 369–704 [505–834]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122148#page/525/mode/1up
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1897) Orthoptera. Fam. Gryllidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1, 217–284. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Hubbell, T.H. (1938) New cave-crickets from Yucatan, with a review of the Pentacentrinae, and studies on the genus Amphiacusta (Orthoptera, Gryllidae). In Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. Vol. 491, pp. 191–233.
  • Alexander, R.D. & Otte, D. (1967) The evolution of genitalia and mating behavior in crickets (Gryllidae) and other Orthoptera. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 133, 1–62. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56377
  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1993) The cricket fauna of Chiapanecan caves (Mexico): systematics, phylogeny and the evolution of troglobiotic life (Orthoptera, Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae, Luzarinae). International Journal of Speleology, 22(1-4), 1–82. Available at http://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1361&context=ijs
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. & Otte, D. (1997) Revision of the West Indian genus Amphiacusta Saussure, 1874, with descriptions of twenty new species (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 33(1), 101–128. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61524210/f110.item
  • Bland, R.G. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2003) An annotated list of Orthoptera from St. Eustatius and Saba, Dutch West Indies, with descriptions of two new cricket species (Trigonidiidae, Mogoplistidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 12(2), 115–126. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282003%29012%5B0115%3AAALOOF%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Otte, D. & Perez-Gelabert, D.E. (2009) Caribbean Crickets. Orthopterist's Society, 792 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Superspecies6006
Species7701693