Subgenus

Championica (Championica) Saussure & Pictet, 1898

Type

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

Championica Saussure & Pictet, 1898: 405.
type species by original monotypy Championica montana Saussure & Pictet, 1898
Orpacophora Kirby, 1906: 313.
type species by original designation Gryllus (Tettigonia) coronatus Linnaeus, 1758

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
Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662

Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
Gorochov, A.V. (2012) Systematics of the American katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 316(1), 3–21. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_316_1/TZ_316_1_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.