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genus

Kuantania Miller, 1935

Type

Kuantania squamipennis Miller, 1935 type species by original monotypy of Kuantania Miller, 1935

Nomenclature (8)

  • Kuantania Miller, 1935: 691.

    type species by original monotypy Kuantania squamipennis Miller, 1935

  • Kuantania Miller, 1935 in Willemse, 1957: 326.
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  • Kuantania Miller, 1935 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 356.
  • Kuantania Miller, 1935 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 116, 119, 157.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • 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.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1963) The genus Kuantania Miller 1935, with a description of a new species from Indo-China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 41, 901–904.
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  • 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.
  • Miller, N.C.E. (1935) XLIV. New and little known Malayan Acrididae. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, 17(4), 686–709, 1 plate.
  • 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.
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1957) Synopsis of the Acridoidea of the Indo-Malayan and adjacent regions (Insecta, Orthoptera) (contd.). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 10, 227–500.
  • 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:

Named after Kuantan in Malaysia where the originally only species was found.

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