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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Bullacris Roberts, 1941

Type

type species by original designation of Bullacris Roberts, 1941

Nomenclature (21)

  • Bulla Stål, 1873: 136. (homonym)
  • Bullacris Roberts, 1941: 11, 18.

    type species by original designation Gryllus (Bulla) unicolor Linnaeus, 1758

  • Bullacris Roberts, 1941 in Gordon, Colville, Engelbrecht & Couldridge, 2024: 303, 328.
  • Parabullacris Dirsh, 1963 (subjective synonym of Bullacris Roberts, 1941) in Gordon, Colville, Engelbrecht & Couldridge, 2024: 302, 307.

References (13)

  • Stål, C. (1873) Acridiodea. In Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm. Vol. 1, 154 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1941) On new and previously known species of Pneumoridae (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 67, 137–159. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4277_002#page/3/mode/1up
  • Roberts, H.R. (1941) Nomenclature in the Orthoptera concerning genotype designations. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 67, 1–34. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4277_001#page/3/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 833 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1963) Three new genera and species of the family Pneumoridae (Orth. Acridoidea). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 39, 177–184. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/158156
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) Revision of the family Pneumoridae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 15(10), 325–396. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis15entoond
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1970) A comparative study of communicative behavior in grasshoppers. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 141, 1–168. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56385
  • 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.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2011) Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine. University of Chicago Press, 384 pp.
  • Gordon, M.L., Colville, J.F., Engelbrecht, A. & Couldridge, V.C.K. (2024) Ancient grasshoppers: A revision of the genus Bullacris (Orthoptera: Pneumoridae). Zootaxa, 5474(4), 301–354. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.4.1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from replaced name Bulla and Greek name for grasshopper ἀκρίς.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species703744