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Ensifera
Insecta - Orthoptera
Taxonomy
Ensifera was named by Chopard (1920). It is extant.
It was reranked as the order Ensifera by Martins-Neto (1991).
It was assigned to Saltatoria by Zeuner (1941); to Orthopteroidea by Martins-Neto (1991); to Orthoneoptera by Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence (2004); and to Orthoptera by Riek (1954), Riek (1955), Zeuner (1962), Sharov (1968), Riek (1974), Whalley (1985), Carpenter (1992), Papier et al. (1997), Wappler (2001), Gorochov et al. (2006), Eades et al. (2012) and Song et al. (2015).
It was reranked as the order Ensifera by Martins-Neto (1991).
It was assigned to Saltatoria by Zeuner (1941); to Orthopteroidea by Martins-Neto (1991); to Orthoneoptera by Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence (2004); and to Orthoptera by Riek (1954), Riek (1955), Zeuner (1962), Sharov (1968), Riek (1974), Whalley (1985), Carpenter (1992), Papier et al. (1997), Wappler (2001), Gorochov et al. (2006), Eades et al. (2012) and Song et al. (2015).
Subtaxa
Acridiites, Acridiites liasinus, Araripemyrmecophilops, Elcanidea, Elcanopsis, Falsirameus, Gryllacridoidea, Gryllidea, Kulmbachiellon fragile, Liadolocusta auscultans, Liassogrylloides, Locusta prisca, Locustopsites gigantea, Oedischiidea, Phasmomimoidea, Raphoglidae, Tettavidae, Tettigoniidea (syn. Locustariae), Thnetus, Triassomanteidae, Vitimiidae, Yuxiania
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1839 | Locusta prisca Germar p. 200 figs. Pl 21, fig 3 |
| 1865 | Acridiites Heer p. 84 |
| 1865 | Acridiites liasinus Heer p. 84 |
| 1906 | Liadolocusta auscultans Handlirsch p. 423 figs. Pl 40, fig 8 |
| 1920 | Ensifera Chopard |
| 1937 | Locustopsites gigantea Theobald p. 116 fig. 9 |
| 1938 | Kulmbachiellon fragile Kuhn p. 318 figs. Fig 1 |
| 1941 | Ensifera Zeuner |
| 1954 | Ensifera Riek p. 163 |
| 1955 | Ensifera Riek p. 682 |
| 1962 | Ensifera Zeuner |
| 1968 | Ensifera Sharov |
| 1974 | Ensifera Riek p. 20 |
| 1985 | Ensifera Whalley |
| 1991 | Ensifera Martins-Neto p. 44 |
| 1992 | Ensifera Carpenter p. 155 |
| 1997 | Ensifera Papier et al. |
| 2001 | Ensifera Wappler p. 89 |
| 2004 | Ensifera Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence |
| 2006 | Ensifera Gorochov et al. p. 642 |
| 2012 | Acridiites Eades et al. |
| 2012 | Ensifera Eades et al. |
| 2015 | Ensifera Song et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available