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genus

Xeracris Caudell, 1916

Type

Heliastus minimus Scudder, 1900 type species by original designation of Xeracris Caudell, 1916

Nomenclature (9)

  • Xeracris Caudell, 1916: 25.

    type species by original designation Heliastus minimus Scudder, 1900

  • Coniana Caudell, 1916: 26.

    type species by original designation or monotypy Coniana snowi Caudell, 1916

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  • Coniana Caudell, 1916 (subjective synonym of Xeracris Caudell, 1916) in Otte, 1981: 229.
  • Xeracris Caudell, 1916 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 750.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Caudell, A.N. (1916) Notes on some United States grasshoppers. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 49, 25–31. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53483#page/101/mode/1up
  • Gurney, A.B. (1940) Notes on certain genera of North American grasshoppers of the subfamily Oedipodinae, with the description of a new genus and species (Orthotpera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 42, 1–15. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54651#page/325/mode/1up
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  • Jago, N.D. (1971) A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world with a key to the genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 123, 205–343. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=ELz9FCjoVVkC
  • Otte, D. (1981) Acrididae: Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. In North American Grasshoppers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Vol. 1, 274 pp.
  • 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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Descendants and synonyms

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Feminine

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genus211
species523