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genus

Menesesia Willemse, 1922

Type

Menesesia novaeguineae Willemse, 1922 type species by original monotypy of Menesesia Willemse, 1922

Nomenclature (9)

  • Menesesia Willemse, 1922: 710.

    type species by original monotypy Menesesia novaeguineae Willemse, 1922

  • Desmopterina Ramme, 1941: 39, 55.

    type species by original designation Desmopterina elegans Ramme, 1941

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  • Menesesia Willemse, 1922 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 414.
  • Menesesia Willemse, 1922 in Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 132, 159.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1963) A revision of the Desmopterini (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pygomorphidae) Part I. Genera other than Desmopterella. Nova Guinea, 19, 361–407.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
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  • 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.
  • Ramme, W. (1941) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Acrididen-Fauna des indomalayischen und benachbarter Gebiete (Orth.). Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tiergeographie von Celebes. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 25, 1–243. [1940]
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1922) Résultats de l'expédition scientifique neerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1912-1913. Orthoptera Fam. Acridodea. Nova Guinea, 13, Zool. 5, 702–722.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

In honor of the Portuguese explorer Jorge de Meneses who dioscovered New Guinea in 1526.

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