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genus

Tropidacris Scudder, 1869

Type

Tropidacris rex Scudder, 1869 type species by original monotypy of Tropidacris Scudder, 1869

Nomenclature (26)

  • Tropidacris Scudder, 1869: 338.

    type species by original monotypy Tropidacris rex Scudder, 1869

  • Tropidacris Scudder, 1869: 346.
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  • Tropidacris Scudder, 1869 in Rowell, 2013: 113.
  • Tropidacris Scudder, 1869 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015: 220-222.

Nomenclature references (20)

  • 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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  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Carbonell, C.S. (1984) Nomenclature and systematics of Tropidacris and Eutropidacris (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Romaleidae). Notulae Naturae, 461, 1–11. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=8J0G2KVzbW0C
  • Carbonell, C.S. (1986) Revision of the Neotropical genus Tropidacris (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Romaleidae, Romaleinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 138(2), 366–402. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=tqCycESs6McC
  • Descamps, M. & Carbonell, C.S. (1985) Revision of the Neotropical arboreal genus Titanacris (Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Romaleidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 21(3), 259–285. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6129393g/f268.item
  • Hebard, M. (1923) Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia. Third paper. Orthopterous family Acrididae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 49(3), 165–313. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4259_003#page/3/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
  • Liebermann, J. (1939) Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 10, 125–230. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/58220
  • Liebermann, J. (1939) Los Tropidacrini de la región neotropical. Physis. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, 17(49), 589–600.
  • Marshall, J.A. (1983) The orthopteroid insects described by Linnaeus, with notes on the Linnaean collection. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 78(4), 375–396.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Pictet, A. & de Saussure, H. (1887) Catalogue d'Acridiens. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 7(9), 331–376. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39741
  • 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.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (1978) Food plant specificity in neotropical rain-forest acridids. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 24(3), 651–662.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1869) A study of the gigantic lobe-crested grasshoppers of South and Central America. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 12, 345–355. [1868] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37039#page/353/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1869) Notes on Orthoptera collected by Prof. James Orton on either side of the Andes of Equatorial South America. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 12, 330–345. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37039#page/338/mode/1up
  • Stål, C. (1876) Observations orthoptérologiques 2. Les genres des Acridiodées de la faune Européenne. Aperçu des genres des Acridiodées de l'Amérique du Nord. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4(5), 1–58. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49926#page/233/mode/1up
  • 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:

From Greek τρόπις, keel of a ship, probably referring to the pronotum shape, and ἀκρίς, locust

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