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genus Poekilocerus Serville, 1831

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (29):
  • Serville. 1831. Ann. Sci. nat. 22(86):275   >> Poekilocerus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:37589
  • Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2 2(I-VIII):593   >> Poecilocera subsequent misspelling
  • Percheron. 1836. Genera des insectes ou exposition détaillée de tous les caractères propres a chacun des genres de cette clase d'animaux 3:pl. 6 >> Poecilocera subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:37590
  • Percheron. 1838. Table alphabétique 10 >> Poekilocera subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:37594
  • Bolívar, I. 1884. An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 13:452   >> Poecilocerus subsequent misspelling
  • Stål. 1873. Ofv. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. 30(4):51   >> Poecilocerus subsequent misspelling
  • Stål. 1855. Ofv. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. 12:352   >> Poecilocerus subsequent misspelling
  • Schaum. 1853. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 2:775, 779   >> Poecilocerus subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:37595
  • Bordas. 1898. Ann. Sci. nat. Zool. 8(5):70, 71 >> Paecilocerus subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:37598
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1902. Canadian Ent. 34(12):317   >> Poekilocerus
  • Bolívar, I. 1904. Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 4:432   >> Poecilocerus subsequent misspelling
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):317   >> Poecilocerus
  • Kirby, W.F. 1914. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae) 170   >> Poecilocerus subsequent misspelling
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 162 >> Note: Poekiloceri >> Poekilocerus
  • Shumakov. 1963. Trudy Vses. Entomol. Obshch. [= Horae Soc. Entomol. Union. Sov.] 49:110 >> Note: Pyrgomorphinae >> Poekilocerus
  • Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology 1:26, 36, 73 >> Poekilocerus
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:112 >> Poekilocerus
  • ICZN. 1971. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 28(3/4):88   >> Note: Gryllus pictus as type species >> Poekilocerus
  • China. 1972. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 46:63   >> Poekilocerus
  • Kevan, D.K.M. [Ed.]. 1977. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 16:172, 173 >> Note: synonym >> Poekilocerus subsequent misspelling
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1975[1974]. Publ. Cult. Comp. Diamant. Angola 88:82 >> Note: synonym >> Poekilocerus subsequent misspelling
  • Popov, G.B. & D.K.M. Kevan. 1979. Anti-Locust Bull. 51:1-81 >> Poekilocerus
  • Fishelson. 1985. Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea 3:80 >> Poekilocerus
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 3:96 >> Note: Poekilocerini >> Poekilocerus
  • Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera) 566 >> Poekilocerus
  • Popov, G.B. [Ed.]. 1997. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 16:139 >> Note: key to species >> Poekilocerus
  • Usmani, M.K. 2008. Zootaxa 1946:17 >> Poekilocerus
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser, C. Hemp & Harvey. 2015. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae 120 >> Poekilocerus
  • Zahid, Mariño-Pérez, Amehmood, K. Muhammad & H. Song. 2020. Zootaxa 4895(3):392 >> Poekilocerus
• Type species:  Gryllus pictus Fabricius, by subsequent designation; authority:  Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):674 pp.
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Poeciloceridae Burmeister, H., 1840.

• synonym Decticus Klug, 1832
• synonym Paecilocerus Bordas, 1898
• synonym Paekilocera Westwood, 1841
• synonym Poecilocera Percheron, 1836
• synonym Poecilocerus Schaum, 1853
• synonym Poekilocera Percheron, 1838
• species arabicus Uvarov, 1922
• species bufonius (Klug, 1832)
• subspecies bufonius (Klug, 1832)
• subspecies hieroglyphicus (Klug, 1832)
• subspecies vittatus (Klug, 1832)
• species calotropidis Karsch, 1888
• species geniplanus Gupta & Chandra, 2016
• species pictus (Fabricius, 1775)
• synonym sonnerati Serville, 1831
• synonym tessellatus Bolívar, 1904

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