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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Shoacris Kevan, 1952

Type

type species by original designation of Shoacris Kevan, 1952

Nomenclature (8)

  • Chrotogonus (Shoacris) Kevan, 1952: 92.

    type species by original designation Chrotogonus bormansi Bolívar, 1884

  • Chrotogonus (Shoacris) Kevan, 1952 in Johnston, 1956: 119.
  • Shoacris Kevan, 1952 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 61, 134.
  • Shoacris Kevan, 1952 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 28, 170.

References (8)

  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1952) A study of the genus Chrotogonus Audinet Serville, 1839 (Orth., Acrid., Pyrgomorphinae). I. The subgenera Obbiacris, nov. and Shoacris, nov. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 25(2), 87–96. Available at http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=seg-001%3A1952%3A25%3A%3A72#102
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1959) A study of the genus Chrotogonus Audinet-Serville, 1839 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Pyrgomorphidae). V. A revisional monograph of the Chrotogonini. VI. The history and biogeography. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 43, 11–199.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from type locality Shewa (Shoa) in Ethiopia and Greek name for grasshopper.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species1023