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Genus

Cratomelus Blanchard, 1851

Type

type species by original monotypy of Cratomelus Blanchard, 1851

Nomenclature (23)

  • Cratomelus Blanchard, 1851: 37.

    type species by original monotypy Cratomelus armatus Blanchard, 1851

  • Lencica Walker, 1870: 476.

    type species by original monotypy Lencica ferruginea Walker, 1870

  • Cratomelus Blanchard, 1851 in Alfaro, Zuñiga-Reinoso, Muñoz-Ramírez & Elgueta, 2015: 194.
  • Cratomelus Blanchard, 1851 in Cadena-Castañeda, Castañeda M., Garay & Rincón, 2022: 140.

References (17)

  • Blanchard, C.É. (1851) Fauna chilena. Orden VI. Ortópteros. In Historia física y politica de Chile: Vol. 6 (Zool.). Museo de historia natural de Santiago, Paris & Chile. pp. 5–85. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54591#page/5/mode/1up
  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich
  • Stål, C. (1876) Observations orthoptérologiques 2. Les genres des Acridiodées de la faune Européenne. Aperçu des genres des Acridiodées de l'Amérique du Nord. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4(5), 1–58. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49926#page/233/mode/1up
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1888) Monographie der Stenopelmatiden und Gryllacriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 38, 247–394, pls. 5–9. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_38_0247-0394.pdf
  • Tepper, J.G.O. (1892) The Gryllacrididae and Stenopelmatidae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 15, 137–178. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54689#page/145/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Ander, K. (1933) Eine neue Gryllacride (Orth. Saltatoria). Entomologisk Tidskrift, 54(2), 138–140.
  • Karny, H.H. (1937) Orthoptera Fam. Gryllacrididae, Subfamiliae Omnes. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 206, 1–317 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/223806#page/9/mode/1up
  • Ander, K. (1943) Systematische und morphologische Bemerkungen über einige Rhaphidoriden, Gryllacrididen und Stenopelmatiden. Kunglia fysiografiska Sallskapets i Lund Förhandlingar, 13(3), 25–37.
  • Ander, K. (1943) Über die von C. Stål beschriebenen Stenopelmatiden (Salt.). Entomologisk Tidskrift, 64, 198–201. Available at https://archive.org/details/entomologisk-tidskrift-64-3-4-198-20
  • Liebermann, J. (1951) Tres notas ortopterologicas sudamericanas. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 15(1-3), 121–140. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/49711
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • Johns, P.M. (1997) The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 125–138. Available at http://wetageta.massey.ac.nz/PDFs/Articles_from_Jo/Johns%201997.pdf
  • Elgueta, M., Camousseight, A. & Carbonell, C.S. (1999) Catálogo de Orthoptera (Insecta) de Chile. Publicación ocasional - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Chile), 54, 1–60. Available at http://publicaciones.mnhn.gob.cl/668/articles-71109_archivo_01.pdf
  • Otte, D. (2000) Orthoptera Species File 8. Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 97 pp.
  • Alfaro, F.M., Zuñiga-Reinoso, Á., Muñoz-Ramírez, C. & Elgueta, M. (2015) New records reveal the actual distribution of Cratomelus meritus Gorochov (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae), a giant red cricket from Chile. Neotropical Entomology, 44(2), 194–196.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Castañeda M., D., D., Garay, A., A. & Rincón, W.F. (2022) Studies on chevron crickets: Morphological redescription of Chilean red cricket Cratomelus armatus Blanchard, 1851 (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Zootaxa, 5169(2), 136–146.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species30710