genus

Oaxaca Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011

Type

Oaxaca colorata Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 type species by original designation of Oaxaca Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011

Oaxaca Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011: 42.
type species by original designation Oaxaca colorata Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011
Oaxaca Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 in Aguilar-Roldán, Gómez-Tapia, Mariño-Pérez, Song, Vázquez-Reyes & Sanabria-Urbán, 2024: 506.

Oaxaca Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 in Sanabria-Urbán, Gómez-Tapia, Rangel-Villa & Mariño-Pérez, 2026: 314.

Aguilar-Roldán, C.A., Gómez-Tapia, J.D., Mariño-Pérez, R., Song, H., Vázquez-Reyes, L.D. & Sanabria-Urbán, S. (2024) Studies in Mexican grasshoppers: four new species of the genus Oaxaca Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 with the erection of the subgenus Paraoaxaca (Caelifera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Zootaxa, 5486(4), 499–538. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.4.3
Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2011) New Acrididae from Oaxaca State in Mexico (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae: Ommatolampinae, Melanoplinae). Zootaxa, 2862, 39–55.

Sanabria-Urbán, S., Gómez-Tapia, J.D., Rangel-Villa, J.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2026) Studies on Mexican grasshoppers: Stegotettix cristata a new genus and species, and three new species of the genus Oaxaca Fontana et al. 2011 (Acrididae; Melanoplinae). Zootaxa, 5760(3), 301–336. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5760.3.1

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Named after distribution in Oaxca in southern Mexico.