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genus

Parorthacris Dirsh, 1958

Type

Parorthacris somalica Dirsh, 1958 type species by original designation of Parorthacris Dirsh, 1958

Nomenclature (9)

  • Parorthacris Dirsh, 1958: 860.

    type species by original designation Parorthacris somalica Dirsh, 1958

  • Parorthacris Dirsh, 1958 in Johnston, 1968: 99.
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  • Parorthacris Dirsh, 1958 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 111.
  • Parorthacris Dirsh, 1958 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 31, 164.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Two new genera of Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10. [1957]
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
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  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E., Akbar, S.S. & Chang, Y.C. (1970) Concealed copulatory structures of the Pyrgomorphidae (Orth. Acrid.) Part II. Tribes Fijipyrjini, Verduliini, Bruniellini, Psednurini, Mitricephalini, Geloiini, Sagittacridini, Gymnohippini & Malagasphenini. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 45, 173–227. [1969] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/164238
  • 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.
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) In Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from Orthacris Bolívar, 1884.

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