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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Nyassacris Ramme, 1929

Type

Nyassacris uvarovi Ramme, 1929 type species by original monotypy of Nyassacris Ramme, 1929

Nomenclature (15)

  • Nyassacris Ramme, 1929: 300.

    type species by original monotypy Nyassacris uvarovi Ramme, 1929

  • Nyassacris Ramme, 1929 in Dirsh, 1956: 137, 138.
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  • Malawia Dirsh, 1968 (subjective synonym of Nyassacris Ramme, 1929) in Otte, 2024: 22.
  • Nyassacris Ramme, 1929 in Otte, Cowper & Armstrong, 2024: 205.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • 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. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1968) A new genus and species of the family Lentulidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 37, 143–145.
  • 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. (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
  • Otte, D., Cowper, G. & Armstrong, A.J. (2024) Corrigenda pertaining to the taxonomy of Lentulidae (Acridoidea) and Caribbean Gryllidae (Grylloidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 150(1), 205–206. https://doi.org/10.3157/061.150.0106
  • Ramme, W. (1929) Afrikanische Acrididae. Revisionen und Beschreibungen wenig bekannter und neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15, 247–492.
  • 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:

Composed of the name of the type locality of the only species in Malawi (Nyassa, Nyasaland) and generic suffix for grasshoppers.

Stats

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
genus1012
species90110