genus

Acanthacara Scudder, 1869

Type

Acanthacara acuta Scudder, 1869 type species by original monotypy of Acanthacara Scudder, 1869

Nomenclature (10)

Acanthacara Scudder, 1869: 335.
type species by original monotypy Acanthacara acuta Scudder, 1869
Acanthacara Scudder, 1869 in Walker, 1871: 38.
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Acanthacara Scudder, 1869 in Gorochov, 2015: 497.
Acanthacara Scudder, 1869 in Braun & Morris, 2022: 149, 152.

Nomenclature references (10)

Braun, H. & Morris, G.K. (2022) New species of awl-head katydids, Cestrophorus and Acanthacara, from the Andes of Ecuador (Orthoptera, Conocephalinae, Cestrophorini). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 31(2), 143–156. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/82306/
Bruner, L. (1915) Notes on tropical American Tettigonoidea (Locustodea). Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 9(3-4), 284–404. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/annalsofcarnegie09carn
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Scudder, S.H. (1897) List of exotic Orthoptera described by S. H. Scudder, 1868-1879, with a revision of their nomenclature. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 27(12), 201–218. [1896] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/257772#page/321/mode/1up
Walker, F. (1871) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum: Vol. Supplement. London, 1–116 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34094#page/99/mode/1up

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Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Probably derived from Greek άκανθα – ácantha (thorn) and certainly referring to the vertex being “prolonged into a sharply pointed, long and curved thorn” (Scudder 1869).

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species	7	7	0