Type

Tetrix lucifer Serville, 1838 type species by original monotypy of Holocerus Bolívar, 1887

Nomenclature (7)

  • Holocerus Bolívar, 1887: 186, 232.

    type species by original monotypy Tetrix lucifer Serville, 1838

  • Holocerus Bolívar, 1887 in Kirby, 1910: 28.
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  • Holocerus Bolívar, 1887 in Skejo, Medak, Pavlović, Kitonić, Miko & Franjević, 2020: 4.
  • Holocerus Bolívar, 1887 (classified as Guntheritettigini Cadena-Castañeda, 2025) in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 191, 261.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Bolívar, I. (1887) Essai sur les Acridiens de la tribu des Tettigidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 31, 175–313. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44636#page/675/mode/1up
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., Infante, I.C., Silva, D.S.M. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa, 5597(1), 1–265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5597.1.1
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  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 6. Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and Addenda to OSF Vols. 1-5. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 261 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1930) New and little known Madagascar grouse-locusts (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Acrydiinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 477–519. [1929]
  • Skejo, J., Medak, K., Pavlović, M., Kitonić, D., Miko, R.J.C. & Franjević, D. (2020) The story of the Malagasy devils (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae): Holocerus lucifer in the north and H. devriesei sp. nov. in the south? ZooKeys, 957, 1–15. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/52565
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.

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