Genus

Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828

Nomenclature (43)

Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Latreille, Le Peletier, Audinet-Serville & Guérin-Méneville, 1828: 444.
type species by subsequent designation Mantis sacrata Olivier, 1797 in Kirby, 1904
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Audinet-Serville, 1831: 62.

Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Gray, 1835: 27.
Platytelus Gray, 1835: 13, 28.
type species by original monotypy Platytelus horridus Gray, 1835
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Audinet-Serville, 1838: 282.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Burmeister, 1838: 587.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in de Caumont Laporte, comte de Castelnau, 1840: 17. Image or description
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Haan, 1842: 112.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Westwood, 1859: 166.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Saussure, 1859: 63.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Stål, 1875: 60.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Stål, 1875: 20. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Kirby, 1890: 574. Phylogeny or classification
Platytelus Gray, 1835 (subjective synonym of Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Kirby, 1890: 574. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Rehn, 1904: 105.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Kirby, 1904: 405.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Redtenbacher, 1906: 153.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Shelford, 1909: 376.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Costa Lima, 1939: 189. Specimen or distribution
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Ragge, 1955: 377. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Bradley & Galil, 1977: 202.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Sellick, 1979: 325. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Crosby-Clark, 1995: 7. Specimen or distribution
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Sellick, 1997: 116. Image or description; Phylogeny or classification; Specimen or distribution
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Sellick, 1998: 211. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Bragg, 2001: 642.
Platytelus Gray, 1835 (subjective synonym of Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Bragg, 2001: 626.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Zompro, 2004: 65, 320.
Platytelus Gray, 1835 (subjective synonym of Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Zompro, 2004: 319.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Otte & Brock, 2005: 284.
Platytelus Gray, 1835 (subjective synonym of Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Otte & Brock, 2005: 284.
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Gates, 2008: 1. Life history
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Conle, Hennemann & Gutiérrez, 2011: 19. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Büscher & Gorb, 2017: 1-11. Physiology
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Holland, 2018: 29. Specimen or distribution
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in López-Mora & Llorente-Bousquets, 2018: 49. Specimen or distribution; Key
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Conle, Hennemann, Bellanger, Lelong, Jourdan & Valero, 2020: 93. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Heleodoro & Rafael, 2020: 37-80. Image or description; Phylogeny or classification
Prisopoides Heleodoro & Rafael, 2020: 58f.
type species by original designation Prisopoides brunnescens Heleodoro & Rafael, 2020 in Heleodoro & Rafael, 2020
Platytelus Gray, 1835 (subjective synonym of Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Conle, Hennemann, Bellanger, Lelong, Jourdan & Valero, 2020: 93. Phylogeny or classification
Prisopoides Heleodoro & Rafael, 2020 (subjective synonym of Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Conle, Hennemann, Bellanger, Lelong, Jourdan & Valero, 2020: 93. Phylogeny or classification

Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Brock & Büscher, 2022: 564. Specimen or distribution
Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Sánchez-Ocampo, 2025: 2. Phylogeny or classification; Key

Nomenclature references (35)

Latreille, P.A., Le Peletier, A.L.M., de Saint-Fargeau, Audinet-Serville, J.G. & Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1828) In Encyclopédie Méthodique, ou par ordre de matières par un société de gens de lettres, de savans et d´artistes. Histoire Naturelle. Panckoucke, Paris. Vol. 10, 345–832 pp. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/155986#page/455/mode/1up
Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1831) Revue Méthodique des Insectes de l’ordre des Ortoptères. Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zool. Paris, 22, 28–29, 56–65. Available at http://https://biodiversitylibrary. org/page/6095939

Brock, P.D. & Büscher, T.H. (2022) Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids. NAP Editions, France: Verrières-le-Buisson, 612 pp. Available at http://www.napeditions.com/en/67-stick-and-leaf-insects-of-the-world.html
Sánchez-Ocampo, M. (2025) Notes on the Diagnosis of the Species of the Genus Prisopus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (Phasmida: Prisopidae: Prisopini) Present in Costa Rica. International Journal of Zoology and Animal Biology, 8(1)(000649), 1–6. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389062893_Notes_on_the_Diagnosis_of_the_Species_of_the_Genus_Prisopus_Le_Peletier_Audinet-Serville_1828_Phasmida_Prisopidae_Prisopini_Present_in_Costa_Rica

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Genus	1	0	2	3
Species	24	0	25	49