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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Chapmanacris Dirsh, 1959

Type

Chapmanacris sylvatica Dirsh, 1959 type species by original designation of Chapmanacris Dirsh, 1959

Nomenclature (7)

  • Chapmanacris Dirsh, 1959: 21.

    type species by original designation Chapmanacris sylvatica Dirsh, 1959

  • Chapmanacris Dirsh, 1959 in Jago, 1964: 196, 199, 200.
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  • Chapmanacris Dirsh, 1959 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 145.
  • Chapmanacris Dirsh, 1959 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 28, 153.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1959) New genera and species of Acridoidea from tropical Africa (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 35, 21–39. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155679
  • Jago, N.D. (1964) Aspects of the ecology and distribution of grasshoppers in Ghana as a contribution to the zoogeography of West Africa. Journal of the West Africa Science Association, 8(2), 190–204.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2023) Pyrgomorphidae Genera of the World: Key to Genera. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, Vol. 212, 1–185 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • 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:

Dedicated to the entomologist Reginald Frederick Chapman (1930–2003) who collected the holotype of the unique species.

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