Biology:Rammeihippus

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Short description: Genus of grasshoppers

Rammeihippus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Gomphocerinae
Genus: Rammeihippus
Woznessenskij, 1996
Synonyms
  • Microhippus Ramme, 1939
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Rammeihippus is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae (unassigned to any tribe), erected by Woznessenskij in 1996 as a nomen novum.[1][2] (The junior homonym Microhippus had been erected by Willy Ramme in 1939[3].) (As of 2022) there are two known species with a recorded distribution in the Balkans and Turkey (but this may be incomplete).[4]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[4] lists:

  1. Rammeihippus dinaricus (Götz, 1970)
  2. Rammeihippus turcicus (Ramme, 1939) - type species (as Microhippus turcicus Ramme)

References

  1. Woznessenskij, A. Ju. (1995). "New replacement names for one genus and two species of Acrididae (Orthoptera)". Zoosystematica Rossica 4 (2): 204. https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/publication.asp?id=447. 
  2. Woznessenskij, A. Ju. (1996). "Correction (Orthoptera: Acrididae)". Zoosystematica Rossica 5 (1): 90. https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/publication.asp?id=429. 
  3. Ramme, W. (1939). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Orthopterenfauna (Tettig. u. Acrid.) III". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 24: 129. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Orthoptera Species File: genus Rammeihippus Woznessenskij, 1996". http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1112266. 

Wikidata ☰ Q10649090 entry