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genus

Abracris Walker, 1870

Type

Abracris dilecta Walker, 1870 type species by original monotypy of Abracris Walker, 1870

Nomenclature (18)

  • Abracris Walker, 1870: 642.

    type species by original monotypy Abracris dilecta Walker, 1870

  • Osmilia Stål, 1873: 68.

    type species by subsequent designation Acrydium flavolineatum De Geer, 1773 in Rehn, 1904

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  • Abracris Walker, 1870 in Bueno, Palacios-Gimenez, Martí, Mariguela & Cabral-de-Mello, 2016
  • Abracris Walker, 1870 in Matiotti da Costa, Silva Carvalho & Zefa, 2022: 390.

Nomenclature references (16)

  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Bruner, L. (1908) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 249–342. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm
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  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1893) Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13(33), 1–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25035
  • Bueno, D., Palacios-Gimenez, O.M., Martí, D.A., Mariguela, T.C. & Cabral-de-Mello, D.C. (2016) The 5S rDNA in two Abracris grasshoppers (Ommatolampidinae: Acrididae): molecular and chromosomal organization. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 291(4), 1607–1613. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00438-016-1204-1
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Carbonell, C.S. (1996) Revision of the genus Orthoscapheus Bruner 1906, with description of a new species (Acrididae, Ommatolampinae, Abracrini). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 5, 29–36.
  • Liebermann, J. (1939) Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 10, 125–230. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/58220
  • Matiotti da Costa, M.K., Silva Carvalho, G. & Fontanetti, C.S. (2010) Cladistic analysis of Abracrini genera (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Ommatolampinae). Zootaxa, 2451, 1–25.
  • Matiotti da Costa, M.K., Silva Carvalho, G. & Zefa, E. (2022) Male genitalia morphology and dichotomous key of the Neotropical genera of Abracrini (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Ommatolampidinae) grasshoppers. Zootaxa, 5159(3), 383–392.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1904) Notes on Orthoptera from northern and central Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 513–549. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30096#page/563/mode/1up
  • Roberts, H.R. & Carbonell, C.S. (1981) A revision of the Neotropical genus Abracris and related genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Ommatolampinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 133, 1–14. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=7z23Kw2zxUcC
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • Stål, C. (1873) Acridiodea. In Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm. Vol. 1, 154 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
  • 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:

Probably from Greek ᾰ̔βρός = graceful or elegant and ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς = grasshopper or locust.

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