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Genus

Ceracris Walker, 1870

Type

type species by original monotypy of Ceracris Walker, 1870

Nomenclature (34)

  • Ceracris Walker, 1870: 721, 790.

    type species by original monotypy Ceracris nigricornis Walker, 1870

  • Kuthya Bolívar, 1909: 291.

    type species by original monotypy Kuthya laeta Bolívar, 1914

  • Ceracris Walker, 1870 in Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015: 277.
  • Ceracris Walker, 1870 in Cao, Dang & Yin, 2019: 275, 277.

References (25)

  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
  • Bolívar, I. (1909) Observaciones sobre los Truxalinos. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 9, 285–296. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17844#page/295/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Bolívar, I. (1914) Estudios entomológicos. Segunda parte. I. El Grupo de los Euprepocnemes. II. Los Truxalinos del antiguo Mundo. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica), 20, 1–110. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48655
  • Kirby, W.F. (1914) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London, 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Caudell, A.N. (1921) Some new Orthoptera from Mokanshan, China. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 23(2), 27–35. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofent23ento
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1925) A revision of the genus Ceracris Walk. (Orth. Acrid.). Entomologische Mitteilungen, 14, 11–17. Available at http://sdei.senckenberg.de/~openaccess/00801.pdf
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1951) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthotpera). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 4, 41–114.
  • Yin, X.-C. (1984) Grasshoppers and locusts from Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China. Science Press, Beijing, 1–287 pp.
  • Ingrisch, S. (1989) Records, descriptions, and revisionary studies of Acrididae from Thailand and adjacent regions (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Spixiana (Munich), 11(3), 205–242. Available at http://s.ingrisch.macbay.de/EN/page2/page2.html
  • Mistshenko, L. & Storozhenko, S.Y. (1990) On the fauna of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of south-eastern Asia [in Russian]. In Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad]. Vol. 209, pp. 29–37.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Otte, D. (1994) Review of the genus Stethophyma Fischer (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Acridinae: Parapleurini). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2, 61–64.
  • Liu, J. & Li, H. (1995) Classification of acridoids from Hainan Island, China. In Studies on acridoids of Hainan Island. Academy of Sciences, Beijing. pp. 23–126, 293–294.
  • 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.
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University, 390 pp.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. & Xia, K.-L. (1998) Orthoptera. Acridoidea. Oedipodidae and Arcypteridae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 10, i-xv, 1–616; Insecta.
  • Huang, C. & She, C. (1999) Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea and Acridoidea. In Fauna of Insects Fujian Province of China. Vol. 1. Fujian Science and Technology Press, Fuzhou. pp. 213–266.
  • Shishodia, M.S., Dey, A. & Tandon, S.K. (2003) Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. In Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series. Vol. 2, pp. 165–192. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/sfs/045/index.pdf
  • Petit, D. (2005) Données récentes sur la phylogénie moléculaire des Acrididae, spécialement les Oedipodinae et les Gomphocerinae. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 10, 7–18.
  • Liu, J., Jiang, G. & Huo, G. (2006) Phylogeny of some Chinese ceracrine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) inferred from mitochondrial 16S and 12S ribosomal DNA sequences. Oriental Insects, 40, 153–158.
  • Huo, G., Jiang, G., Sun, Z., Liu, D., Zhang, Y.-L. & Lu, L. (2007) Phylogenetic reconstruction of the family Acrypteridae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 34, 294–306.
  • Wang, Y.-F., Wang, W., Zheng, Z.-M., Huang, Y. & Yang, L. (2012) Molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis of some species of Arcypteridae (Orthoptera: Acriodidea [Acridoidea]) in China inferred from Cyt b and CO II gene sequences. Sichuan Journal of Zoology, 31(6), 871–879.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Cao, C.-Q., Dang, Y. & Yin, Z. (2019) A new species and key to all known species of the genus Ceracris Walker, 1870 from China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Arcypteridae). Zootaxa, 4555(2), 275–279.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1034
Species1401125
Subspecies601117