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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Wellawaya Uvarov, 1927

Type

type species by original monotypy of

Nomenclature (3)

  • Wellawaya Uvarov, 1927: 97.

    type species by original monotypy Wellawaya greeni Uvarov, 1927

  • Wellawaya Uvarov, 1927 in Willemse, 1951: 280.
  • Wellawaya Uvarov, 1927 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 744.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Some Orthoptera of the families Mantidae, Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 14(1), 85–114.
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1951) Description of a new genus and species of Acrididae, subfam. Acridinae, from India. Entomologische Berichten, 13(312), 279–280. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1015770
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the type locality of the only species.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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