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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Ozmacris Hill, 2025

bauble

Type

type species by original designation of

Nomenclature (1)

  • Ozmacris Hill, 2025: 88.

    type species by original designation Barytettix peninsulae Scudder, 1897

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Hill, J.V.G. (2025) Two new genera of grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae) from Baja California, Mexico, with a regional key to the genera of Melanoplinae. ZooKeys, 1238, 75–97. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1238.147762

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Ozmacris is a combination of “Ozama” after Princess Ozma from L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz (Baum 1907) and acris from the Greek word for grasshopper. The name is a reference to the scene where Princess Ozma is transformed by the Nome King into an emerald-green grasshopper ornament beneath the Deadly Desert. Baum (1907: 180) described the scene: “The room was quite empty of life after that. The Nome King had gained a new ornament, for upon the edge of the table rested a pretty grasshopper, seemingly crafted from a single emerald. It was all that remained of Ozma of Oz”.

Stats

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
genus1001
species1023