genus
Rowellacris Ritchie & Hemp, 2025
Type
Ixalidium usambaricum Ramme, 1929 type species by original designation of Rowellacris Ritchie & Hemp, 2025
Nomenclature (1)
- Rowellacris Ritchie & Hemp, 2025 in Hemp, Ritchie, Cigliano, Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz, Linde, Uluar, Oumarou-Ngoute & Song, 2025: 498, 518.
type species by original designation Ixalidium usambaricum Ramme, 1929
Nomenclature references (1)
- Hemp, C., Ritchie, J.M., Cigliano, M.M., Heller, K.-G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Linde, J.B., Uluar, O., Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Song, H. (2025) Out of sight, out of mind? Ixalidiidae, a new family of African forest grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) revealed by molecular phylogenetics and genital morphology. Zoosystema, 47(24), 489–553. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a24
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Named in honour of Charles Hugh Fraser Rowell in grateful recognition of his outstanding contributions to the biology and systematics of tropical locusts and grasshoppers over more than sixty years.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |