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genus

Modernacris Willemse, 1931

Type

Modernacris controversa Willemse, 1931 type species by original designation of Modernacris Willemse, 1931

Nomenclature (23)

  • Modernacris Willemse, 1931: 333.

    type species by original designation Modernacris controversa Willemse, 1931

  • Oxytarbaleus Ramme, 1941: 78, 217.

    type species by original designation Oxytarbaleus guentheri Ramme, 1941

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  • Oxyarbaleus [sic] Ramme, 1941 (misspelling of Oxytarbaleus Ramme, 1941) in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 486.
  • Modernacris Willemse, 1931 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 131, 160.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1964) Systematic position and synonymy of the genus Modernacris (Orth., Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 40(1-2), 109–115. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/160114
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Akbar, S.S. (1964) The Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), their systematics, tribal divisions and distribution. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1505–1536.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1966) The tribe Nereniini: with additions to the Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from the South Pacific. Pacific Insects, 8(3), 695–758.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1981) Notes on some Nereniini (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Colemania, 1(1), 1–3.
  • 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.
  • Ramme, W. (1941) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Acrididen-Fauna des indomalayischen und benachbarter Gebiete (Orth.). Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tiergeographie von Celebes. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 25, 1–243. [1940]
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1931) Beschreibung von einigen neuen Acridoidea von den Salomon-Inseln (Subfam. Catantopinae, Orthoptera). Internationale entomologische Zeitschrift, 25, 333–337, 345–350.
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1949) Description of a new genus and species of Acrididae (Orthoptera) from the Solomon Islands. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 92, 251–255. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89660#page/281/mode/1up
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1955) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 8, 3–225. [1956]
  • 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

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1034
species60814