Euryphymus Explained

Euryphymus is the type genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Euryphyminae, erected by Carl Stål in 1873 as a subgenus of "Calliptenus" (Euryphymus).^[1] Species have been recorded from southern Africa and Madagascar (although the known distribution may be incomplete).

Species

A key to most species was given by Uvarov.^[2] The Orthoptera Species File includes:^[3]

1. Euryphymus eremobioides Bolívar, 1889
2. Euryphymus exemptus (Walker, 1870)
3. Euryphymus haematopus (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Gryllus haematopus Linnaeus, by subsequent designation^[4])
4. Euryphymus kalahariensis Barker, 1985
5. Euryphymus tuberculatus Martínez y Fernández-Castillo, 1898
6. Euryphymus xanthocnemis Brancsik, 1897

External links

• Images at Inaturalist and of E. haematopus at OSF

Notes and References

1. Stål C (1873) Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1: 72
2. Uvarov BP (1922) Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 48: 163.
3. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1113250 Orthoptera Species File
4. Kirby WF (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2): 674 pp.