genus

Peplacris Rehn, 1942

Type

type species by original designation of

Peplacris Rehn, 1942: 64.
type species by original designation Peplacris recutita Rehn, 1942
Peplacris Rehn, 1942 in Amédégnato, 1974: 197.
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Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
Cigliano, M.M. (1989) Revisión sistemática de la familia Tristiridae (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción, 60, 51–110. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31654600#page/57/mode/1up
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Rehn, J.A.G. (1942) The locusts of the South American generic group Tristriae (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 68, 31–99. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4278_001#page/35/mode/1up
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.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From πέπλος, cloak or robe, and ἀκρίς, a locust, in allusion to the character of the inetegument.