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genus

Tonkinacris Carl, 1916

Type

Tonkinacris decoratus Carl, 1916 type species by original monotypy of Tonkinacris Carl, 1916

Nomenclature (13)

  • Tonkinacris Carl, 1916: 485.

    type species by original monotypy Tonkinacris decoratus Carl, 1916

  • Tonkinacris Carl, 1916 in Chang, 1940: 38, 65.
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  • Tonkinacris Carl, 1916 in Wang, Jiang, Gu, Wei, Lin, Huang, Liang & Huang, 2021: 1.
  • Tonkinacris Carl, 1916 in Zhang, Mao, Hill & Huang, 2025

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 1, 1–400 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224096#page/9/mode/1up
  • Carl, J.[=J. (1916) Acridides nouveaux ou peu connus du Muséum de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 24(6), 461–518, 1 pl. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40346#page/475/mode/1up
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  • Chang, K.S.F. (1940) The group Podismae from China (Acrididae, Orthoptera). Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise. Musée Heude, 7, 31–97, 3 pls.
  • Ito, G. (1999) Descriptions of three new species of Podisminae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Southern Japan. Entomological Science, 2(4), 503–510.
  • Ito, G. (2015) A systematic study of the grashopper tribe Podismini in Japan (Orthoptera:Acrididae). Insecta Matsumurana, New Series, 71, 1–119. Available at http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/journals/item.php?item=71397&handle=2115_60241&jname=188&vname=5624
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) In Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University. 390 pp.
  • Li, H. & Xia, K.-L. (2006) Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 43.
  • Mistshenko, L. (1952) Locusts and grasshoppers, Catantopinae. The Fauna of Russia (= The USSR Fauna). New Series., 4(2), 610 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Wang, H., Jiang, B., Gu, J., Wei, T., Lin, L.-L., Huang, Y., Liang, D. & Huang, J. (2021) Molecular phylogeny and species delimitation of the genus Tonkinacris (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae) from China. PLoS One, 16(4 e0249431), 1–17. Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249431
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1957) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera) (contd.). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 10, 227–500.
  • 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.
  • Zhang, Y., Mao, B., Hill, J.V.G. & Huang, J. (2025) Revision of the genus Alulacris Zheng, 1981 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae) with proposals of new synonyms. ZooKeys, 1253, 171–194. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1253.158995

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From distribution in northern Vietnam (Tonkin) and Greek name for grasshopper (ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς).

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