genus

Ponderacris Ronderos & Cigliano, 1991

Type

type species by original designation of

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.

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.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Latin ponderis (heavy) and Greek akris (grasshopper) in allusion to the general appearance.