genus
Ponderacris Ronderos & Cigliano, 1991
Type
Pezotettix peruvianus Stål, 1878 type species by original designation of Ponderacris Ronderos & Cigliano, 1991
Nomenclature (4)
- Ponderacris Ronderos & Cigliano, 1991: 176.
type species by original designation Pezotettix peruvianus Stål, 1878
- Ponderacris Ronderos & Cigliano, 1991 in Otte, 1995: 408.
- Ponderacris Ronderos & Cigliano, 1991 in Cigliano, 1997: 1-19.
- Ponderacris Ronderos & Cigliano, 1991 in Pocco, Posadas, Lange & Cigliano, 2013: 374.
Nomenclature references (4)
- Cigliano, M.M. (1997) Ronderosia, a new genus of South American Melanoplinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 1–19.
- Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
- Pocco, M.E., Posadas, P., Lange, C.E. & Cigliano, M.M. (2013) Patterns of diversification in the high Andean Ponderacris grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Systematic Entomology, 38(2), 365–389.
- Ronderos, R.A. & Cigliano, M.M. (1991) The Andean Dichroplini: cladistic analysis with description of Keyacris n. gen. and Ponderacris n. gen. (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 117(3-4), 167–191.
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
From Latin ponderis (heavy) and Greek akris (grasshopper) in allusion to the general appearance.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 8 | 0 | 9 | 17 | |