Genus

Appalachia Rehn & Rehn, 1936

Type

type species by original designation of Appalachia Rehn & Rehn, 1936

Appalachia Rehn & Rehn, 1936: 10.
type species by original designation Appalachia hebardi Rehn & Rehn, 1936
Appalachia Rehn & Rehn, 1936 in Rehn & Rehn, 1939: 93.

Rehn, J.A.G. & Rehn, J.W.H. (1936) On new or redefined genera of Nearctic Melanopli (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Cyratacanthacrinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 62(1), 1–30. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4272_001#page/3/mode/1up
Rehn, J.A.G. & Rehn, J.W.H. (1939) Studies of certain Cyrtacanthacridoid genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Part I. The Podisma Complex. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 65(2), 61–96. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4275_002#page/3/mode/1up

Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

In allusion to the Appalachian habitat of the sole species.