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genus

Rakwana Henry, 1933

Type

Rakwana ornata Henry, 1933 type species by original designation of Rakwana Henry, 1933

Nomenclature (6)

  • Rakwana Henry, 1933: 167.

    type species by original designation Rakwana ornata Henry, 1933

  • Rakwana Henry, 1933 in Kevan, 1977: 74.
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  • Rakwana Henry, 1933 in Zahid, Mariño-Pérez, Amehmood, Muhammad & Song, 2020: 385.
  • Rakwana Henry, 1933 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 102, 168.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Henry, G.M.R. (1933) Descriptions and records of Ceylonese Acrididae. Spolia Zeylanica, 17(3), 155–200. Available at https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.28759/page/n213/mode/2up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
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  • 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) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.
  • Zahid, S., Mariño-Pérez, R., Amehmood, S.A., Muhammad, K. & Song, H. (2020) An illustrated key of Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of the Indian Subcontinent Region. Zootaxa, 4895(3), 381–397.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After the type locality of the only species, Rakwana in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka.

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