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Orthoptera Species File
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) 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) 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.

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
genus1012
species1001