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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Karruia Rehn, 1945

Type

Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945 type species by original designation of Karruia Rehn, 1945

Nomenclature (10)

  • Karruia Rehn, 1945: 1. (valid)

    type species by original designation Karruia paradoxa Rehn, 1945 in Rehn, 1945: 1

  • Karruia Rehn, 1945 in Dirsh, 1956: 138, 257.
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  • Karruia Rehn, 1945 in Otte, 2020: 9.
  • Karruia Rehn, 1945 in Otte, 2024: 21, 23, 35.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) New Acridoidea (Orthoptera) from the Karroo Region, South Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 21, 323–332. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/21/2/AJA00128789_2513
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (2020) Thirty-two new South African grasshopper species in the family Lentulidae belonging to eleven genera (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 146(1), 1–164.
  • 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
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1945) A new genus and species of Locust of the group Euthymiae (Orthoptera, Acridiidae, Cyrtacanthacridinae) from South Africa. Notulae Naturae, no. 155, 1–7. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=C04l4zxp-wEC
  • 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:

From the Great Karroo, where the genotypic species occurs.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species3003