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genus

Nephoptera Uvarov, 1930

Type

Nephoptera tibialis Uvarov, 1930 type species by original monotypy of Nephoptera Uvarov, 1930

Nomenclature (12)

  • Nephoptera Uvarov, 1930: 630.

    type species by original monotypy Nephoptera tibialis Uvarov, 1930

  • Pseudanerota Bey-Bienko, 1951: 134.

    type species by original designation Phaneroptera persica Uvarov, 1930

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  • Pseudanerota Bey-Bienko, 1951 (subjective synonym of Nephoptera Uvarov, 1930) in Otte, 1997: 142.
  • Nephoptera Uvarov, 1930 in Ünal, 2025: 8.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1951) Investigations on grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) of USSR and neighbouring countries. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva [= Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae], 43, 129–170.
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1954) Orthoptera Vol. II No. 2. Tettigonioidea. Phaneropterinae. The Fauna of Russia (= The USSR Fauna). New Series., 59, 387 pp.
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  • Cejchan, A. (1974) Results of the Czechoslovak-Iranian entomological expedition to Iran 1970. No. 7: Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae: a new species of Nephoptera Uvarov 1929, from Iran. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 6 (Suppl.), 91–94. Available at http://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-970/951-6_0_91.pdf
  • Mirzayans, H. & Morales-Agacino, E. (1969) Sur une nouvelle espèce Iranienne du genre Nephoptera Uvarov 1929 (Orth. Tettigonioidea). Entomologie et Phytopathologie Appliquées, 28, 28–31.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1956) A revision of the genera Phaneroptera Serville and Nephoptera Uvarov (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), with conclusions of zoogeographical and evolutionary interest. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 127(2), 205–283.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1959) A new species of Nephoptera. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 35(4), 425–428. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/156139
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1930) Studies in the Iranian Orthoptera I. Some new or less-known Tettigoniidae. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 30, 623–639. [1929]
  • Ünal, M. (2025) Taxonomic notes on Phaneropterinae and Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Palaearctic Region. Zootaxa, 5687(1), 1–77. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5687.1.1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek νέφος cloud and πτερόν wing.

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