Rammeihippus Explained

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] .) there are two known species with a recorded distribution in the Balkans and Turkey (but this may be incomplete).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[4] lists:

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

Notes and References

  1. Woznessenskij. A. Ju.. New replacement names for one genus and two species of Acrididae (Orthoptera). 1995 . Zoosystematica Rossica . 4 . 2 . 204 .
  2. Woznessenskij. A. Ju.. Correction (Orthoptera: Acrididae). 1996 . Zoosystematica Rossica . 5 . 1 . 90 .
  3. Ramme. W.. 1939. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Orthopterenfauna (Tettig. u. Acrid.) III. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 24. 129.
  4. Web site: Orthoptera Species File: genus Rammeihippus Woznessenskij, 1996 . 30 December 2022.

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