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genus

Sagittacris Dirsh, 1963

Type

Sagittacris malagassus Dirsh, 1963 type species by original designation of Sagittacris Dirsh, 1963

Nomenclature (9)

  • Sagittacris Dirsh, 1963: 82.

    type species by original designation Sagittacris malagassus Dirsh, 1963

  • Sagittacris Dirsh, 1963 in Kevan & Akbar, 1964: 1524.
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  • Sagittacris Dirsh, 1963 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 623.
  • Sagittacris Dirsh, 1963 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 80, 169.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) The Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Madagascar III. Pyrgomorphidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 14, 51–103. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19401#page/65/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1975) In Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects. E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon. 1–171 pp.
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  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. & Akbar, S.S. (1964) The Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), their systematics, tribal divisions and distribution. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1505–1536.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
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Etymology:

From Latin sagitta, arrow, alluding to the thin arrow-like body, and the Greek name for grasshopper.

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