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genus

Nilgiracris Kevan, 1964

Type

Ramakrishnaia raoi Kevan, 1953 type species by original designation of Nilgiracris Kevan, 1964

Nomenclature (6)

  • Nilgiracris Kevan, 1964: 1497, 1502.

    type species by original designation Ramakrishnaia raoi Kevan, 1953

  • Nilgiracris Kevan, 1964 in Kevan, 1977: 101.
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  • Nilgiracris Kevan, 1964 in Zahid, Mariño-Pérez, Amehmood, Muhammad & Song, 2020: 386.
  • Nilgiracris Kevan, 1964 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 9, 161.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1964) A new species of Ramakrishnaia Bolivar, 1918 from South India, and a related new genus (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 96, 1497–1504.
  • 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:

Composed of the distribution of the only species on the Nilgiri Hills and Greek ἀκρίς for grasshopper.

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