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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Basutacris Dirsh, 1953

Type

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

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1953) New and little-known South African Acrididae (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 376–381.
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  • 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) 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.
  • 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. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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:

Reference to distribution of the type species in Basutoland.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species120113