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family Eumastacidae Burr, 1899

• Common name(s):  monkey grasshoppers; saltamontes payaso
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Herbivorous.
• Citations (31):
  • Burr. 1904[1903]. Genera Insectorum 1-23, pl 1  
  • Bolívar, C. 1930. Trab. Mus. Cienc. nat., Madrid (Ser. zool.) 46:X, XXXI, 9   >> Note: Eumastacidae, key to subfamilies
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1948. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 100:77   >> Note: key to subfamilies
  • Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. 1951. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries 1:107[113]  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1952. The grasshoppers and locusts (Acridoidea) of Australia. I. Families Tetrigidae and Eumastacidae 173
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1954. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 16:45 >> Note: Of Thailand
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 1 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Dirsh. 1956. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 108(7):233 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Phipps. 1958. Ent. Monthly Mag. 94:65-66 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Dirsh. 1961. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 10(9):356, 360  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & H.J. Grant Jr. 1961. Monographs Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 12:120 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Shumakov. 1963. Trudy Vses. Entomol. Obshch. [= Horae Soc. Entomol. Union. Sov.] 49:163 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea 17 >> Note: key to subfamilies
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1966. Ent. Meddelelser 34:385
  • Sharov. 1968. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 118:89, 97 >> Note: Eumastacidae Burr 1889, member of Locustopsoidea
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:1 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Strohecker, Middlekauff & D.C.F. Rentz. 1968. Bull. Calif. Insect Surv. 10:15  
  • Podgornaya. 1971. Ent. Rev. 50:299-302
  • Descamps. 1973. Acrida 2:208
  • Blackith, R.E. 1973. Acrida 2, 1:V-XVIII
  • Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects 1-171
  • Descamps. 1979. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. Nouvelle série 15(1):118  
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2:368 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 2:1 >> Note: Eumastacidae
  • Rentz, D.C.F. 1996. Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia 164 >> Note: key to subfamilies
  • Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 1997. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 8:89-103
  • Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi 362
  • Perez-Gelabert. 1999. Novitates Caribaea 1:56   >> Note: key to genera
  • Flook, S. Klee & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2000. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 15(3):345-354
  • Eades. 2000. Jour. Orth. Res. 9:204
  • Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 45-94
• Type genus:  Eumastax Burr, 1899; priority for family-group names based on Eumastax dates from Eumastacides Burr, 1899.  First use as Eumastacidae by Burr, 1904.

• synonym Mastaces Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• synonym Mastacidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• synonym Mastacinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• subfamily Eumastacinae Burr, 1899
• synonym Eumastaces Burr, 1899
• synonym Eumastacini Burr, 1899
• genus Amedegnatomastax Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015
• genus Andeomastax Descamps, 1979
• genus Araguamastax Descamps, 1982
• genus Beomastax Descamps, 1979
• genus Caenomastax Hebard, 1923
• genus Cardonamastax Cadena-Castañeda, 2015
• genus Descampsmastax Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015
• genus Erythromastax Descamps, 1971
• genus Eumastax Burr, 1899
• genus Hebardomastax Cadena-Castañeda, 2016
• genus Helicomastax Rowell & Bentos-Pereira, 2001
• genus Homeomastax Descamps, 1979
• genus Hysteromastax Descamps, 1979
• genus Phryganomastax Descamps, 1979
• genus Santanderia Hebard, 1923
• genus Sciaphilomastax Descamps, 1979
• genus Zeromastax Porras, 2007
• subfamily Gomphomastacinae Burr, 1899
• synonym Gomphomastaces Burr, 1899
• synonym Gomphomastacidae Burr, 1899
• synonym Gomphomastacini Burr, 1899
• genus Afghanomastax Descamps, 1974
• genus Brachymastax Ramme, 1939
• genus Clinomastax Bey-Bienko, 1949
• genus Gomphomastax Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898
• genus Gyabus Özdikmen, 2008
• genus Myrmeleomastax Yin, 1984
• genus Nepalomastax Yamasaki, 1983
• genus Oreomastax Bey-Bienko, 1949
• genus Paedomastax Bolívar, 1930
• genus Pentaspinula Yin, 1982
• genus Phytomastax Bey-Bienko, 1949
• genus Ptygomastax Bey-Bienko, 1959
• genus Sinomastax Yin, 1984
• subfamily Masynteinae Descamps, 1973
• synonym Masynteini Descamps, 1973
• genus Masyntes Karsch, 1889
• subfamily Morseinae Rehn, 1948
• tribe Daguerreacridini Descamps, 1973
• tribe Morseini Rehn, 1948
• tribe Psychomastacini Descamps, 1973
• subfamily Paramastacinae Rehn & Grant, 1958
• synonym Paramastacini Rehn & Grant, 1958
• genus Paramastax Burr, 1899
• subfamily Parepisactinae Descamps, 1971
• synonym Parepisactini Descamps, 1971
• genus Chapadamastax Descamps, 1979
• genus Parepisactus Giglio-Tos, 1898
• subfamily Pseudomastacinae Rehn & Grant, 1958
• synonym Pseudomastacini Rehn & Grant, 1958
• genus Pseudomastax Bolívar, 1914
• subfamily Temnomastacinae Rehn & Grant, 1958
• synonym Eumastacopinae Descamps, 1973
• tribe Eumastacopini Descamps, 1973
• tribe Temnomastacini Rehn & Grant, 1958
• genus Acutacris Dirsh, 1966
• species tsaratananae Descamps & Wintrebert, 1967
• species viridis Dirsh, 1966
• genus Angulomastax Zheng, 1985
• species meiospina Zheng, 1985
• genus †Archaeomastax Sharov, 1968
• species †jurassicus Sharov, 1968
• genus †Eoerianthus Gorochov, 2012
• species †eocaenicus Gorochov, 2012
• species †multispinosus (Scudder, 1890)
• genus †Eozaenhuepfer Zessin, 2017
• species †erteboellei Zessin, 2017
• genus †Taphacris Scudder, 1890
• synonym Tachacris Gu, Yue, Shi, Tian & Ren, 2016
• species †bittaciformis Cockerell, 1926
• species †reliquata Scudder, 1890
• species †stenosis Lin, 1977
• species †tillyardi Cockerell, 1926
• species †turgis Lin, 1980

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