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genus

Compsacris Bolívar, 1890

Type

Compsacris pulcher Bolívar, 1890 type species by original monotypy of Compsacris Bolívar, 1890

Nomenclature (14)

  • Compsacris Bolívar, 1890: 314.

    type species by original monotypy Compsacris pulcher Bolívar, 1890

  • Amblyscapheus Bruner, 1906: 622, 632.

    type species by original designation or monotypy Amblyscapheus lineatus Bruner, 1906

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  • Compsacris Bolívar, 1890 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 185.
  • Compsacris Bolívar, 1890 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015: 272.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Bolívar, I. (1890) Diagnosis de ortópteros nuevos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 19, 299–333. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54768#page/303/mode/1up
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  • Bruner, L. (1906) Synoptic list of Paraguayan Acrididae, or locusts, with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 30(1461), 613–694. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53722#page/711/mode/1up
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Carbonell, C.S. (1995) Revision of the tribe Scyllinini, nov. (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae), with descriptions of new genera and speces. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 121(3), 87–152.
  • 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
  • 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. & Jago, N.D. (1979) Revision of the grasshopper genera Silvitettix and Compsacris (Gomphocerinae. Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 131, 257–288.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Riede, K. (1987) A comparative study of mating behaviour in some neotropical grasshoppers (Acridoidea). Ethology, 76, 265–296. Available at http://www.groms.de/data/zoology/riede/Riede_Ethology_1987.pdf
  • 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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