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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Calviniacris Dirsh, 1956

Type

Calviniacris nuda Dirsh, 1956 type species by original monotypy of Calviniacris Dirsh, 1956

Nomenclature (23)

  • Calviniacris Dirsh, 1956: 177.

    type species by original monotypy Calviniacris nuda Dirsh, 1956

  • Uvarovidium Dirsh, 1956: 278.

    type species by original designation Uvarovidium peninsulare Dirsh, 1956

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  • Dirshidium Brown, 1970 (subjective synonym of Calviniacris Dirsh, 1956) in Otte, 2024: 21, 33.
  • Uvarovidium Dirsh, 1956 (subjective synonym of Calviniacris Dirsh, 1956) in Otte, 2024: 21, 33.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Brown, H.D. (1970) New genera and species of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) from South Africa. Journal of Natural History, 4, 493–509.
  • Brown, H.D. (1972) New genera of African Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 35(2), 269–277.
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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.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Some new and little known South African Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 19, 250–288. Available at https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/AJA00128789_4335
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 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. (2014) Twenty-nine new species in the genus Leatettix (Acridoidea: Lentulidae) from the Southern, Western and Northern Cape, South Africa. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 140, 349–401. Available at http://authors.entomology-aes.org/article/public/18.pdf
  • 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
  • Ritchie, J.M. (1982) New and little-known Acridoidea (Insecta, Orthoptera) from Somalia. 1. The genus Merehana Kevan and its taxonomic affinities, with a redefinition of the Shelforditinae. Monitore zoologico italiano (N.S.), Suppl. 17(6), 171–181. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03749444.1982.10736664
  • 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:

Derived from Calvinia (Cape Province) where the type species was found and ἀκρίς for grasshopper.

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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
genus1023
species60511