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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Brasilacris Rehn, 1940

Type

type species by original designation of

Nomenclature (6)

  • Brasilacris Rehn, 1940: 4.

    type species by original designation Brasilacris gigas Rehn, 1940

  • Brasilacris Rehn, 1940 in Rehn & Grant, 1959: 254.
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  • Brasilacris Rehn, 1940 in Otte, 1995: 39.
  • Brasilacris Rehn, 1940 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 107.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
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  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1959) An analysis of the tribes of the Romaleinae with special reference to their internal genitalia (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 85, 233–271.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1940) A new genus of Tropinotine locusts from Brazil (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Notulae Naturae, 66, 1–9. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=WGgEnbxh_CsC
  • Roberts, H.R. & Carbonell, C.S. (1992) Revision of the genera Agriacris Walker 1870 and Staleochlora nov. (Orthoptera, Romaleidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 1, 75–106.
  • 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 distribution in Brazil and Greek ἀκρίς for grasshopper or locust.

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