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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Dirshia Brown, 1962

Type

Dirshia abbreviata Brown, 1962 type species by original designation of Dirshia Brown, 1962

Nomenclature (4)

  • Dirshia Brown, 1962: 219.

    type species by original designation Dirshia abbreviata Brown, 1962

  • Dirshia Brown, 1962 in Johnston, 1968: 174.
  • Dirshia Brown, 1962 in Otte, 1995: 129.
  • Dirshia Brown, 1962 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 237.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Brown, H.D. (1962) New and interesting grasshoppers from southern Africa - 3 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 25(2), 198–229. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/25/2/AJA00128789_3701
  • 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) 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:

Dedicated to the the Ukrainian-British entomologist and grasshopper specialist Vitaly Michailovitsh Dirsh (1904–1982).

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