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genus

Somaliacris Dirsh, 1959

Type

Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959 type species by original designation of Somaliacris Dirsh, 1959

Nomenclature (5)

  • Somaliacris Dirsh, 1959: 21.

    type species by original designation Somaliacris rugosa Dirsh, 1959

  • Somaliacris Dirsh, 1959 in Johnston, 1968: 204.
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  • Somaliacris Dirsh, 1959 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 645.
  • Somaliacris Dirsh, 1959 in Hemp & Rowell, 2020: 30.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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
  • Hemp, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2020) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae. 232 pp.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
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Etymology:

Named after Somalia where the unique species was found.

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