Genus

Chibchacris Hebard, 1923

Type

type species by original designation of Chibchacris Hebard, 1923

Chibchacris Hebard, 1923: 286.
type species by original designation Chibchacris furcata Hebard, 1923
Chibchacris Hebard, 1923 in Rehn & Randell, 1963: 10, 11.

Chibchacris Hebard, 1923 in Chintauan-Marquier, Jordan, Berthier, Amédégnato & Pompanon, 2011: 27, 30.
Chibchacris Hebard, 1923 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 308-309.

Hebard, M. (1923) Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia. Third paper. Orthopterous family Acrididae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 49(3), 165–313. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4259_003#page/3/mode/1up
Rehn, J.A.G. & Randell, R.L. (1963) A preliminary analysis of the lines of the super-tribe Melanoplini (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 115, 1–32. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5Y5x8Zew67EC

Chintauan-Marquier, I.C., Jordan, S., Berthier, P., Amédégnato, C. & Pompanon, F. (2011) Evolutionary history and taxonomy of a short-horned grasshopper subfamily: The Melanoplinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 58, 22–32. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790310003015
Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Composed of Chibcha, an indigenous people and ancient culture of the altiplano cundiboyacense, and ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς, the Greek name for grasshopper.