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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Katangacris Kevan & Akbar, 1964

Type

type species by original designation of

Nomenclature (6)

  • Katangacris Kevan & Akbar, 1964: 1532.

    type species by original designation Katangacris enigmatica Kevan & Akbar, 1964

  • Katangacris Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Johnston, 1968: 104.
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  • Katangacris Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 352.
  • Katangacris Kevan & Akbar, 1964 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 32, 157.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • 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.
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  • 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) 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 locality where the only species was found, Katanga, and the Greek name for grasshopper, ἀκρίς.

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