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genus

Onetes Rehn, 1944

Type

Onetes sanguinolentus Rehn, 1944 type species by original designation of Onetes Rehn, 1944

Nomenclature (7)

  • Onetes Rehn, 1944: 19, 49.

    type species by original designation Onetes sanguinolentus Rehn, 1944

  • Onetes Rehn, 1944 in Johnston, 1956: 214.
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  • Onetes Rehn, 1944 in Otte, 1995: 93.
  • Onetes Rehn, 1944 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 466.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Dirsh, V.M. & Descamps, M. (1968) Insectes. Orthoptères, Acridoidea. Pyrgomorphidae et Acrididae. Faune de Madagascar, 26, 1–312.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1962) The Acridoidea (Orthoptera ) of Madagascar. I. Acrididae (except Acridinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 12(6), 273–350. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis12entoond
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1944) A review of the Old World Euthymiae (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 96, 1–135. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=axt087cw1R0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Ονήτης, the Carystian who is supposed to have betrayed to Xerxex the pass at Thermopylae. The name is given in allusion to the contradictory character of some of its features.

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