Urostylis Westwood, 1837

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Genus Urostylis Westwood, 1837

Urostylis Westwood, 1837: 45 . Type species by subsequent designation ( Distant 1902: 306): Urostylis punctigera Westwood, 1837 .

Urostylis: Dallas (1851: 315) (listed), Stål (1876: 116) (synopsis), Distant (1902: 302, 306) (in key, diagnosis, fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma), Reuter (1905: 64) (diagnostic characters), Kerzhner (1966: 46, 49) (in key, fauna of USSR), Hsiao & Ching (1977: 193) (diagnosis, fauna of China), Ahmad et al. (1979: 42) (fauna of Pakistan), Nonnaizab (1986: 239) (fauna of Inner Mongolia), Kanyukova (1988: 910) (fauna of the Far East of USSR), Rider (2006: 112) (catalogue, Palaearctic).

Urostylus [incorrect subsequent spelling]: Ahmad et al. (1992: 263, 265, 271, 275) (redescription, fauna of India and neighbouring regions).

Distribution and diversity. Urostylis currently contains 64 described species (D.A. Rider, pers. comm.), but one of them is synonymized below, reducing the number of species to 63. We are nevertheless aware of a number of additional unpublished synonymies and several undescribed species.