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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Basutacris Dirsh, 1953

Type

type species by original designation of Basutacris Dirsh, 1953

Nomenclature (10)

  • Basutacris Dirsh, 1953: 376.

    type species by original designation Basutacris scotti Dirsh, 1953 in Dirsh, 1953: 376

  • Basutacris Dirsh, 1953 in Dirsh, 1956: 138, 257.
  • Basutacris Dirsh, 1953 in Otte, Cowper & Armstrong, 2023: 197, 198.
  • Basutacris Dirsh, 1953 in Otte, 2024: 21, 25,.

References (10)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1953) New and little-known South African Acrididae (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 376–381.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • 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.
  • Matenaar, D., Bröder, L. & Hochkirch, A. (2016) A preliminary phylogeny of the South African Lentulidae. Hereditas, 153(1), 1–8. Available at http://hereditasjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41065-015-0005-6
  • Otte, D., Cowper, G. & Armstrong, A.J. (2023) Revision of Lentula, Nyassacris, Basutacris and Qachasia, with descriptions of three new genera and 26 new species (Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 149(2), 185–234. https://doi.org/10.3157/061.149.0205
  • Otte, D. (2024) Keys to Southern African Lentulidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) and revision of Eremidium. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 150(1), 21–159. https://doi.org/10.3157/061.150.0102

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to distribution of the type species in Basutoland.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species120113