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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Mohavacris Rehn, 1948

Type

type species by original designation of Mohavacris Rehn, 1948

Nomenclature (8)

  • Mohavacris Rehn, 1948: 17.

    type species by original designation Mohavacris timberlakei Rehn, 1948

  • Mohavacris Rehn, 1948 in Rehn, 1955
  • Mohavacris Rehn, 1948 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 1.
  • Mohavacris Rehn, 1948 in Ingrisch & Rentz, 2009: 741.

References (8)

  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1948) The locust genus Tanaocerus as found in the United States, and the description of a related new genus (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 100, 1–22, 1 pl.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1955) Tanaoceridae and Xyronotidae: Two new families of Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8(88), 285–288.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1955) The female sex of Mohavacris (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Eumastacidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 81, 125–129.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Grant, H.J., Jr. (1961) A monograph of the Orthoptera of North America (north of Mexico). Volume 1. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 12, 1–255.
  • Strohecker, H.F., Middlekauff, W.W. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1968) The grasshoppers of California (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 10, 1–177. Available at http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis10.pdf
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 2. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] A Eumastacoidea Trigonopterygoidea Pneumoroidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 162 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.
  • Ingrisch, S. & Rentz, D.C.F. (2009) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets). In Encyclopedia of Insects: Vol. 2nd ed. Academic Press. 732–743 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From the Mohave Desert, in which the genus occurs, and Greek ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς (locust).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1001