Type

Xiphidion kibonotense Sjöstedt, 1910 type species by original designation of Melanoscirtes Hemp, 2010

Nomenclature (2)

  • Melanoscirtes Hemp, 2010 in Hemp, Kehl, Heller, Wägele & Hemp, 2010: 585.

    type species by original designation Xiphidion kibonotense Sjöstedt, 1910

  • Melanoscirtes Hemp, 2010 in Hemp, Kehl, Heller, Wägele & Hemp, 2012

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Hemp, C., Kehl, S., Heller, K.-G., Wägele, J.W. & Hemp, A. (2010) A new genus of African Karniellina (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Conocephalini): integrating morphological, molecular and bioacoustical data. Systematic Entomology, 35, 581–595.
  • Hemp, C., Kehl, S., Heller, K.-G., Wägele, J.W. & Hemp, A. (2012) Ecological adaptations of grassland-inhabiting flightless Orthoptera: Fulvoscirtes and Acanthoscirtes, two new genera of African Karniellina (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Conocephalini). Systematic Entomology, 37, 387–407.

Descendants and synonyms

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus1001
species4004
subspecies2057