genus

Hovacris Rehn, 1930

Type

type species by original monotypy of

Hovacris Rehn, 1930: 489.
type species by original monotypy Hovacris undulata Rehn, 1930
Hovacris Rehn, 1930 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 337.
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Hovacris Rehn, 1930 in Skejo, Medak, Pavlović, Kitonić, Miko & Franjević, 2020: 3.
Hovacris Rehn, 1930 (classified as Tumbrinckitettigini Cadena-Castañeda, 2025) in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 211, 262.

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
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.
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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) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Hova, the dominant historical caste of Madagascar, and ἀκρίς, grasshopper.