Genus

Championica Saussure & Pictet, 1898

Type

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.

Saussure, H.L.F.de & 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
Beier, M. (1962) Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Pseudophyllinae I). Das Tierreich, 73, 1–468.

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.