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superfamily Proscopioidea Serville, 1838

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is Proscopoidea)
• Distribution:
  •  
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (12):
  • Descamps. 1973. Acrida 2(2):77-95
  • Descamps. 1973. Acrida 2:162 >> Note: superfamily Proscopioidea
  • Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects 5 >> Note: order Eumastacoidea, superfamily Proscopioidea
  • Amédégnato. 1976. Acrida 5(1):1-15 >> Note: Proscopoidea
  • Carbonell. 1977. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 17:29 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1977. Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. 4:22
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2:369 >> Note: Proscopioidea
  • Vickery. 1997. In Gangwere, M.C. Muralirangan & M. Muralirangan [Ed.]. The Bionomics of Grasshoppers, Katydids and Their Kin 6 >> Note: Proscopioidea
  • Matt, Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2008. Jour. Orth. Res. 17(1):49   >> Note: best support for Proscopioidea as superfamily
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama 47 >> Note: Proscopioidea
  • Song, H., Amédégnato, Cigliano, Desutter-Grandcolas, Heads, Y. Huang, D. Otte & Whiting. 2015. Cladistics 31:621-651 >> Note: monophyletic
  • Bentos-Pereira, Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Familia Proscopiidae. In Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 95-101
• Type genus:  Proscopia Klug, 1820; priority for family-group names based on Proscopia dates from Proscopides Serville, 1838.  First use as Proscopioidea by Descamps, 1973.

• synonym Proscopoidea Serville, 1838
• family Proscopiidae Serville, 1838
• synonym Proscopidae Serville, 1838
• synonym Proscopides Serville, 1838
• subfamily Hybusinae Liana, 1980
• subfamily Proscopiinae Serville, 1838
• subfamily Xeniinae Liana, 1980
• genus Bazylukia Liana, 1972
• genus Bolidorhynchus Jago, 1990
• genus †Eoproscopia Heads, 2008
• genus Epsigrypa Mello-Leitão, 1939
• genus Nodutus Liana, 1972
• genus Orthophastigia Tapia, 1982
• genus Scopaeoscleratoscopia Jago, 1990

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