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Orthoptera Species File
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) 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.

Stats

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
genus1001
species1012