Genus
Pholidoptera Wesmaël, 1838
Nomenclature (57)
- Micropteryx Stephens, 1835: 12. (homonym)
- Decticus (Pholidoptera) Wesmaël, 1838: 592.
type species by original monotypy Locusta aptera Fabricius, 1793
- Pholidoptera Wesmaël, 1838 in Çıplak, Heller & Willemse, 2010: 728.
- Pholidoptera Wesmaël, 1838 in Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé, 2012: 248.
References (46)
- Stephens, J.F. (1835) Illustrations of British Entomology: or, A synopsis of indigenous insects: Containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of the metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable...embellished with coloured figures of the rarer and more interesting species: Vol. Mandibulata (6). Baldwin and Cradock, London. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97232#page/5/mode/1up
- Wesmaël, C. (1838) Enumeratio methodica Orthopterorum Belgii. Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 5, 587–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54302#page/635/mode/1up
- Çıplak, B., Heller, K.-G. & Willemse, F.M.H. (2010) Phylogeny and biogeography Eupholidoptera Maran (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae): morphological speciation in correlation with the geographical evolution of the eastern Mediterranean. Systematic Entomology, 35(4), 722–738.
- Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna, Vol. 48, 563 pp.
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
From Greek φολῐ́δᾰ/φολῐ́ς, scale, and Latin -optera, winged, relating to the short scale-like tegmina.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Species | 17 | 0 | 45 | 62 |
| Subspecies | 16 | 0 | 35 | 51 |
