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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Shoacris Kevan, 1952

Type

Chrotogonus bormansi Bolívar, 1884 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.
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  • Shoacris Kevan, 1952 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 61, 134.
  • Shoacris Kevan, 1952 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 28, 170.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • 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. (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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1012
species1023