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family Xyronotidae Bolívar, 1909

• Common name(s):  razor-backed bush-hoppers
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Herbivorous
• Citations (13):
  • Dirsh. 1955. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 12 8(88):286 >> Note: Xyronotidae, new family
  • Dirsh. 1956. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 108(7):238 >> Note: Xyronotidae
  • Dirsh. 1961. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 10(9):366  
  • Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology 1:397 >> Note: Acridoidea: Xyronotidae
  • Kevan, D.K.M. [Ed.]. 1977. Orthopterorum Catalogus 15:17
  • Dirsh & J.B. Mason. 1979. Zeitschr. zool. Syst. u. Evol.-Forsch. 17(3):209, 209
  • Marshall, J.A. 1981. Acrida 10(3):114 >> Note: key to species
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 2:145 >> Note: Pneumoroidea: Xyronotidae
  • Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera) 2
  • Flook, S. Klee & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2000. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 15(3):345-354
  • Eades. 2000. Jour. Orth. Res. 9:204
  • Song, H. 2018. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume 2 267
  • Mariño-Pérez & Sanabria-Urbán. 2022. Metaleptea 42(3):17-19  
• Type genus:  Xyronotus Saussure, 1884; priority for family-group names based on Xyronotus dates from Xyronoti Bolívar, I., 1909.  First use as Xyronotidae by Dirsh, 1955.

• subfamily Xyronotinae Bolívar, 1909
• tribe Xyronotini Bolívar, 1909

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