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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Prionacantha Henry, 1940

Type

type species by original designation or monotypy of

Nomenclature (3)

  • Prionacantha Henry, 1940: 499.

    type species by original designation or monotypy Prionacantha picta Henry, 1940

  • Prionacantha Henry, 1940 in Rehn, 1948: 118.
  • Prionacantha Henry, 1940 in Otte, 1994: 21.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Henry, G.M.R. (1940) New and little known South Indian Acrididae (Orthoptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 90(19), 497–540.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 2. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] A Eumastacoidea Trigonopterygoidea Pneumoroidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 162 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1948) The Acridoid family Eumastacidae (Orthoptera). A review of our knowledge of its components, features and systematics, with a suggested new classification of its major groups. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 100, 77–139. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=w4Y4UsJXKHwC

Descendants and synonyms

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