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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Mohavacris Rehn, 1948

Type

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

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Dirsh, V.M. (1955) Tanaoceridae and Xyronotidae: Two new families of Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8(88), 285–288.
  • Ingrisch, S. & Rentz, D.C.F. (2009) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets). In Encyclopedia of Insects: Vol. 2nd ed. Academic Press. 732–743 pp.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1955) The female sex of Mohavacris (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Eumastacidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 81, 125–129.
  • 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
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

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

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