Eumastax is the type genus of grasshoppers in the family Eumastacidae, erected by Malcolm Burr in 1899[1] and found in of South America.[2]

Eumastax
Eumastax sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Eumastacidae
Subfamily: Eumastacinae
Genus: Eumastax
Burr. 1899
Synonyms

Mastax Perty, 1832 (homonym)

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Species edit

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

  1. Eumastax andeana Descamps, 1979
  2. Eumastax apolinari Hebard, 1923
  3. Eumastax becharai Descamps, 1976
  4. Eumastax dorsti Descamps, 1977
  5. Eumastax equatoriana Descamps, 1973
  6. Eumastax jagoi Descamps, 1971
  7. Eumastax luteiventris Descamps, 1973
  8. Eumastax megacephala Descamps, 1982
  9. Eumastax minuta Bolívar, 1881
  10. Eumastax nigrosignata Descamps, 1979
  11. Eumastax nigrovittata Descamps, 1982
  12. Eumastax pictipes Descamps, 1971
  13. Eumastax poultoni Burr, 1899
  14. Eumastax restrepoi Descamps, 1971
  15. Eumastax rubigithorax Descamps, 1982
  16. Eumastax rubriventris Descamps, 1982
  17. Eumastax salazari Descamps, 1971
  18. Eumastax simoni Descamps, 1971
  19. Eumastax tenuis (Perty, 1832) - type species (as Mastax tenuis Perty)
  20. Eumastax venezuelae Descamps, 1974
  21. Eumastax vittata Burr, 1899
  22. Eumastax vittiger Descamps, 1974
  23. Eumastax vittithorax Descamps, 1974
  24. Eumastax zumuniana Descamps, 1982

References edit

  1. ^ Burr (1899) Essai sur les Eumastacides tribu des Acridiodea. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 28, 75–112, 253–304, 345–350, 3 pls.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Eumastax Burr, 1899 (retrieved 2 November 2023)

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