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genus

Digentia Stål, 1878

Type

Oxya punctatissima Stål, 1875 type species by original designation of Digentia Stål, 1878

Nomenclature (16)

  • Digentia Stål, 1878: 47.

    type species by original designation Oxya punctatissima Stål, 1875

  • Genditia Bolívar, 1911: 301.

    type species by original monotypy Genditia rufogeniculata Bolívar, 1911

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  • Gebditia [sic] Bolívar, 1911 (misspelling of Digentia Stål, 1878) in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 300.
  • Digentia Stål, 1878 in Oumarou-Ngoute & Rowell, 2025: 12, 28.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Bolívar, I. (1911) Orthoptères nouveaux du Congo Belge. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 55, 298–360. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44648#page/306/mode/1up
  • Hollis, D. (1975) A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 31(6), 189–234. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2355540#page/269/mode/1up
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  • Jago, N.D. (1964) Aspects of the ecology and distribution of grasshoppers in Ghana as a contribution to the zoogeography of West Africa. Journal of the West Africa Science Association, 8(2), 190–204.
  • 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.
  • Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Rowell, C.H.F. (2025) Review of the African genus Digentia Stål, 1878 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oxyinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 11–30. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.126949
  • Stål, C. (1878) Systema Acridiodeorum. Essai d'une systématisation des acridiodées. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 5(4), 1–100. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49816#page/127/mode/1up
  • 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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