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genus

Molpa Walker, 1870

Type

Molpa bilineolata Walker, 1870 type species by original monotypy of Molpa Walker, 1870

Nomenclature (9)

  • Molpa Walker, 1870: 479.

    type species by original monotypy Molpa bilineolata Walker, 1870

  • Pyrgophylax Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891: 12, 73.

    type species by original monotypy Pyrgophylax ceylonicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

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  • Pyrgophylax Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 (subjective synonym of Molpa Walker, 1870) in Otte, 1997: 179.
  • Molpa Walker, 1870 in Wu, Yang, Liu & Zong, 2017: 585.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1891) Additamenta zur Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 1–196. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/141/mode/1up
  • Dohrn, H.W.L. (1906) Orthopterologisches aus dem Stettiner Museum II. Ueber einige Phaneropteriden des indo-malayischen Gebietes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 67, 344–358. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36019#page/356/mode/1up
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  • 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
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Walker, F. (1870) In 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
  • Wu, C., Yang, Z., Liu, C. & Zong, C. (2017) Molpa: A newly recorded genus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from China. Zootaxa, 4365(5), 585–589.

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