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family Proscopiidae Serville, 1838

• Common name(s):  stick grashoppers; jumping sticks
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Herbivorous, cryptic stick mimics.
• Citations (26):
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1890. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 40:87  
  • Hebard. 1924. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 76:161 >> Note: key to genera
  • Mello-Leitão. 1939. Ver. VII int. kongr. Ent. 1:292, 302
  • Liebermann. 1939. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 10:132, 142  
  • Mello-Leitão. 1939. Rev. Mus. La Plata Zool. 1(8):279  
  • Ander. 1939. Opuscula Entomologica 2(Suppl.):6 >> Note: Acridoidea: Proscopiidae
  • Slifer. 1943. Journal of Morphology 73(1):89-101, 2 pls.
  • Soukup. 1944. Pub. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, Ser. A, Zool. 8:242-259 >> Note: Proscopidos
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1952. Entomol. News 63(1):5  
  • Dirsh. 1956. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 108(7):240
  • Dirsh. 1961. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 10(9):363  
  • Liana. 1972. Annales Zoologici 29(13):381, 430   >> Note: key to genera
  • Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects 14 >> Note: Proscopiidea
  • Carbonell. 1977. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 17:5
  • Liana. 1980. Mitt. Hamburg. zool. Mus. Inst. 77:230
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1983. Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. 13(1):3003
  • Jago. 1990[1989]. Eos 65(1):252   >> Note: key to genera
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 2:110 >> Note: Eumastacoidea: Proscopiidae
  • Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 1997. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 8:89-103
  • Eades. 2000. Jour. Orth. Res. 9:204
  • Bentos-Pereira. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(2):117-141   >> Note: Eumastacoidea: Proscopiidae
  • Bentos-Pereira. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(2):143-148   >> Note: Eumastacoidea: Proscopiidae
  • Matt, Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2008. Jour. Orth. Res. 17(1):49   >> Note: probably own superfamily Procopioidea
  • Song, H. 2010. Jour. Orth. Res. 19(1):57   >> Note: tentatively inluded in Eumastacoidea
  • De Domenico & Bentos-Pereira. 2011. Jour. Orth. Res. 20(1):61-73  
  • Bentos-Pereira, Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Familia Proscopiidae. In Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 95-141 >> Note: key to Colombian genera
• Type genus:  Proscopia Klug, 1820; priority for family-group names based on Proscopia dates from Proscopides Serville, 1838.  First use as Proscopiidae by Rehn, J.A.G., 1952.

• synonym Proscopidae Serville, 1838
• synonym Proscopides Serville, 1838
• subfamily Hybusinae Liana, 1980
• genus Hybusa Erichson, 1844
• subfamily Proscopiinae Serville, 1838
• tribe Proscopiini Serville, 1838
• tribe Tetanorhynchini Bentos-Pereira, 2003
• genus Anchocoema Mello-Leitão, 1939
• genus Anchotatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890
• genus Astromoides Tapia, 1981
• genus Callangania Liana, 1980
• genus Carphoproscopia Jago, 1990
• genus Corynorhynchus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890
• genus Epigrypa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890
• genus Microcoema Jago, 1990
• genus Pseudoanchotatus Liana, 1980
• genus Stiphra Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1890
• subfamily Xeniinae Liana, 1980
• genus Altograciosa Liana, 1980
• genus Astroma Charpentier, 1845
• genus Xenium Liana, 1980
• genus Bazylukia Liana, 1972
• species sabanillensis Liana, 1972
• genus Bolidorhynchus Jago, 1990
• species borellii (Giglio-Tos, 1897)
• species insignis (Hebard, 1931)
• species magnus (Giglio-Tos, 1897)
• species rileyi (Mello-Leitão, 1939)
• genus †Eoproscopia Heads, 2008
• species †martilli Heads, 2008
• species †reliquum Mendes, Lopes de Vasconcelos & Bezerra de Oliveira, 2019
• genus Epsigrypa Mello-Leitão, 1939
• species chilensis Mello-Leitão, 1939
• species longicaudata Tapia, 1982
• genus Nodutus Liana, 1972
• species asymetricus (Mello-Leitão, 1939)
• species rowelli Bentos-Pereira, 1998
• species spinosus (Klug, 1820)
• genus Orthophastigia Tapia, 1982
• species bimaculata Tapia, 1982
• genus Scopaeoscleratoscopia Jago, 1990
• species simplex Jago, 1990

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