Scaphurae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

Connors, Matthew G., 2024, A nomenclatural review of family-group names in the Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera), Zootaxa 5468 (1), pp. 1-51 : 6

Scaphurae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

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Type genus Scaphura Kirby, 1825

Stem Scaphur-

Currently considered valid

Accepted name: Tribe Scaphurini stat. nov.

Parent taxon: Subfamily Phaneropterinae

Here ranked as tribe, replacing genus group Scaphurae. The name Scaphurae is first mentioned by Westwood (1840) (not 1838, as per ICZN Direction 63), and subsequent authors have accepted this as the correct authority. However, Westwood does not make explicit use of the term as a family-group name, and it seems likely that he instead used it as a plural for Scaphura . The first explicit use of the taxon as a family-group name is by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1878). Thus, the correct authorship for the taxon is Brunner’s, as per ICZN Article 11.7.1.2.