genus

Guichardippus Dirsh, 1959

Type

Guichardippus somalicus Dirsh, 1959 type species by original designation of Guichardippus Dirsh, 1959

Guichardippus Dirsh, 1959: 21.
type species by original designation Guichardippus somalicus Dirsh, 1959
Guichardippus Dirsh, 1959 in Johnston, 1968: 316.

Dirsh, V.M. (1959) New genera and species of Acridoidea from tropical Africa (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 35, 21–39. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155679
Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.

Popov, G.B., Fishpool, L.D.C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2019) A review of the Acridinae s. str. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) of eastern Africa with taxonomic changes and description of new taxa. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 28(1), 37–105. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/29312/
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:

The genus is named after K. M. Guichard whose collecting in Africa added much to the knowledge of its fauna.