genus

Championica Saussure & Pictet, 1898

Championica montana Saussure & Pictet, 1898 type species by original monotypy of Championica Saussure & Pictet, 1898

Championica Saussure & Pictet, 1898: 405.
type species by original monotypy Championica montana Saussure & Pictet, 1898
Championica Saussure & Pictet, 1898 in Beier, 1962: 244.

Beier, M. (1962) Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae I). Das Tierreich, 73, 1–468.
de Saussure, H. & Pictet, A. (1898) Insecta Orthoptera (Orthoptera Genuina). Fam. Locustidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1, 345–456. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm

Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
Gorochov, A.V. (2017) Systematics of the American katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 7. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 321(3), 300–319. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_321_3/TZ_321_3_Gorochov.pdf

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Dedicated to the entomologist George Charles Champion (1851–1927) who collected the holotype of the originally unique species.