genus

Bacillus Berthold, 1827

Type

Mantis rossia Rossi, 1790 type species by original monotypy of Bacillus Berthold, 1827

Nomenclature (89)

Bacillus Berthold, 1827: 408.
type species by original monotypy Mantis rossia Rossi, 1790
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Latreille, Le Peletier, Audinet-Serville & Guérin-Méneville, 1828: 446.
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Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Audinet-Serville, 1831: 64.
Phasma (Bacillus) Berthold, 1827 in Gray, 1833: 18, 22, 28.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Gray, 1835: 20.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Audinet-Serville, 1838: 255.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Burmeister, 1838: 561.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in de Caumont Laporte, comte de Castelnau, 1840: 15. Image or description
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Westwood, 1859: 3.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Saussure, 1869: 290.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Wood-Mason, 1873: 46.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Stål, 1875: 61.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Stål, 1875: 5, 15.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Stål, 1875: 21. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Bolívar, 1876: 274.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882: 73.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Pantel, 1890: 371.
Phasma (Bacillus) Berthold, 1827 in Kirby, 1890: 569. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Bolívar, 1897: 209. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Rainbow, 1897: 37.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Jacobson [also spelt as Yakobson] & Bianchi, 1902: 160.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Kirby, 1904: 333.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Redtenbacher, 1906: 32.
Epibacillus Redtenbacher, 1906: 35.
type species by original monotypy Bacillus lobipes Lucas, 1849
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Zacher, 1909: 140.
Epibacillus Redtenbacher, 1906 in Zacher, 1909: 140.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Burr, 1910: 23. Key
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Bodenheimer, 1935: 159. Specimen or distribution
Epibacillus Redtenbacher, 1906 (subjective synonym of Bacillus Berthold, 1827) in Capra, 1939: 128.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Chopard, 1943: 89. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Harz & Kaltenbach, 1976: 15.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Bradley & Galil, 1977: 196.
Epibacillus Redtenbacher, 1906 in Bradley & Galil, 1977: 196.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Sellick, 1979: 331. Image or description; Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Sellick, 1980: 173. Image or description
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Vickery, 1983: 4.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Brock, 1984: 2.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Sellick, 1987: 137, fig. Image or description; Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Gasperi, Malacrida, Mantovani & Scali, 1987: 195. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali & Marescalchi, 1987: 216. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali & Marescalchi, 1988: 541. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Baccetti, 1988
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani & Scali, 1990: 185. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani & Scali, 1990: 287. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Scali & Tinti, 1990: 33. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani & Scali, 1990: 69. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Scali & Tinti, 1991: 279. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Brock, 1991: 14.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Scali & Tinti, 1991: 901. Phylogeny or classification; Ecological data; Specimen or distribution
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Bianchi, 1992: 15. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Scali & Tinti, 1992: 75-91.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mazzini, Carcupino & Fausto, 1993: 391.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Bullini, 1994: 422. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Failla, La Greca, Lombardo, Messina, Scali, Stefani & Taglianti, 1994: 19. Specimen or distribution
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali, Tinti, Mantovani & Marescalchi, 1995: 59. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Tinti, Mantovani & Scali, 1995: 81. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Tinti, Barilani & Scali, 1996: 261. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Berni, 1997: 2.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Tinti, Scali & Bachmann, 1997: 1197. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Sellick, 1997: 118. Image or description; Phylogeny or classification; Key
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Balderson, Rentz & Roach, 1998: 363.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Passamonti & Scali, 1999: 265.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali & Tinti, 1999: 557.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Mantovani, Passamonti & Scali, 2001: 157.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali & Marescalchi, 2001: 270. Behavior
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Bragg, 2001: 629.
Epibacillus Redtenbacher, 1906 (subjective synonym of Bacillus Berthold, 1827) in Bragg, 2001: 624.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Marescalchi, Zauli & Scali, 2002: 89.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali, Passamonti, Marescalchi & Mantovani, 2003: 137.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Klimesova & Zasmeta, 2003: 56.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Luchetti, Cesari, Carrara, Cavicchi, Passamonti, Scali & Mantovani, 2003: 587.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Zompro, 2004: 265.
Epibacillus Redtenbacher, 1906 (subjective synonym of Bacillus Berthold, 1827) in Zompro, 2004: 310.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Otte & Brock, 2005: 58.
Epibacillus Redtenbacher, 1906 (subjective synonym of Bacillus Berthold, 1827) in Otte & Brock, 2005: 58.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Andersen, Pertoldi, Loeschcke & Scali, 2006: 249.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Wedmann, Bradler & Rust, 2007: 569.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Ricci, Scali & Passamonti, 2008: 1.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali, 2009: 174. Life history
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali, 2009: 317. Life history
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Plazzi, Ricci & Passamonti, 2011: 304.
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Koçak & Kemal, 2012: 7. Specimen or distribution
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Büscher, Buckley, Grohmann, Gorb & Bradler, 2018: 5. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Simon, Letsch, Bank, Buckley, Donath, Liu, Machida, Meusemann, Misof, Podsiadlowski, Zhou, Wipfler & Bradler, 2019: 1. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Scali, Deidda, Coluccia, Cannas, Melis & Salvadori, 2020: 272. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Brock, 2021: 124. Image or description
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Brock & Büscher, 2022: 505. Specimen or distribution

Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Forni, Mikheyev, Luchetti & Mantovani, 2022: 1. Phylogeny or classification
Bacillus Berthold, 1827 in Lavanchy, Brandt, Bastardot, Dumas, Labédan, Massy, Toubiana, Van, Luchetti, Scali, Mantovani & Schwander, 2024: 1109. Phylogeny or classification

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Descendants and synonyms

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	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
genus	3	1	2
species	8	6	2
subspecies	40	14	26