genus

Malagasacris Rehn, 1944

Type

Malagasacris strateia Rehn, 1944 type species by original designation of Malagasacris Rehn, 1944

Malagasacris Rehn, 1944: 18, 32.
type species by original designation Malagasacris strateia Rehn, 1944
Malagasacris Rehn, 1944 in Johnston, 1956: 213.
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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
Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
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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) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Derived from distribution on Madagascar en Greek name for grassgopper ἀκρίς.