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genus

Proracris Uvarov, 1940

Type

Prorachthes insignis Gerstaecker, 1889 type species of Proracris Uvarov, 1940

Nomenclature (14)

  • Prorachthes Gerstaecker, 1889: 6. (homonym)

    type species by original monotypy Prorachthes insignis Gerstaecker, 1889

  • Prorachthes Gerstaecker, 1889 (homonym of Prorachthes Loew, 1868)
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  • Proracris Uvarov, 1940 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 576.
  • Proracris Uvarov, 1940 in Rowell, 2013: 70.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1893) Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13(33), 1–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25035
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  • Gerstaecker, A. (1889) Charakteristik einer Reihe bemerkenswerther Orthopteren. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein für Neuvorpommern und Rügen in Greifswald, 20, 1–58.
  • Giglio-Tos, E. (1898) Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nella Republica dell'Ecuador et regioni vicine. VI. Ortotteri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino, 13(311), 1–108. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42045#page/9/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1955) On some Gerstaecker types of neotropical Orthoptera. II. Acrididae (part). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 81, 21–35.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 112–117.
  • 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:

Derived from the replaced name Prorachthes Gerstaecker, 1889, using the Greek word for rasshopper ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς.

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