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genus

Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868

Type

type species by subsequent designation of

Nomenclature (21)

  • Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868: 385.

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllotalpa oxydactyla Perty, 1832 in Kirby, 1906

  • Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868 in Scudder, 1869: 6, 7.
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  • Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868 in Cadena-Castañeda, 2015: 269.
  • Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868 in Cadena-Castañeda, 2015: 469.

Nomenclature references (21)

  • Bhargava (1996) A new mole cricket of the genus Scapteriscus (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Entomon, 21(2), 191–193.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2015) The phallic structures in Gryllotalpidae (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea), and its generic implications. Zootaxa, 3981(2), 264–274.
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  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2015) The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae). Zootaxa, 3985(4), 451–490.
  • Canhedo-Lascombe, V.L. & Corseuil, E. (1996) Caracterização das espécies de Gryllotalpidae (Orthoptera, Ensifera) do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, com algumas observações biológicas e sonográficas. Iheringia Série Zoologia, Porto Alegre, 80, 65–104. Available at http://archive.org/details/biostor-251322
  • 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.
  • de Saussure, H. (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
  • de Saussure, H. (1877) Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(1), 169–504 [1–352]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35307
  • Forrest, T.G. & Green, D.M. (1991) Sexual selection and female choice in mole crickets (Scapteriscus: Gryllotalpidae): modelling the effects of intensity and male spacing. Bioacoustics, 3, 93–109.
  • Fowler, H.G., Crestana, L., Camargo, D. & Viera de Camargo, M.T. (1986) As paquinhas (Orthoptera, Gryllotalpidae, Scapteriscus & Neocurtilla) do Estado de Sao Paulo. Cientifica (Jaboticabal), 14(1-2), 159–172.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–213. [in Russian]
  • 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
  • Nickle, D.A. & Castner, J.L. (1984) Introduced species of mole crickets in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 77(4), 450–465. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s341lnc84.pdf
  • Nickle, D.A. (2003) A revision of the mole cricket genus Scapteriscus with the description of a morphologically similar new genus (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 129(3-4), 411–485.
  • Otte, D. & Perez-Gelabert, D.E. (2009) In Caribbean Crickets. Orthopterist's Society. 792 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Padhi, A., Young Jr., R.E., Hoffart, C., Sarratt, T., Fancher, J., Steffen, M.A. & Hill, P.S.M. (2010) Investigating genetic relationships within Gryllotalpidae: a molecular hypothesis. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 19(2), 357–360. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.019.0224
  • Rodríguez, F. & Heads, S.W. (2012) New mole crickets of the genus Scapteriscus Scudder from Colombia (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae; Scapteriscinae). Zootaxa, 3282, 61–68.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1868) Remarks on classification of mole crickets. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 11, 384–387. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33728#page/402/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1869) Revision of the large, stylated fossorial crickets. Memoirs of the Peabody Academy of Science, 1, 3–28. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=iPU-AQAAMAAJ
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) In Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico. Cambridge, Mass. 87 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogeneracla00scudrich
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1983) A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 13(1), I-IV, i-xxii, 1–679.

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