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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) In 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.

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