genus

Yungasacris Rehn, 1950

Yungasacris grata Rehn, 1950 type species by original designation of Yungasacris Rehn, 1950

Yungasacris Rehn, 1950: 311.
type species by original designation Yungasacris grata Rehn, 1950
Yungasacris Rehn, 1950 in Otte, 1997: 131.

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Gorochov, A.V. (2013) Review of the Neotropical genera Quiva and Yungasacris (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 22(2), 189–203. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/publication.asp?id=1132
Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Braun, H. & García García, A. (2022) The tribe Dysoniini part VI: Phylogeny, biogeography and evolutionary trends of the lichen katydid genera (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Eleventh contribution to the suprageneric organization of Neotropical phaneropterines. Zootaxa, 5166(1), 1–93.

Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
Rehn, J.A.G. (1950) Studies in the Group Dysoniae (Aphidniae of authors) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) Part I. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 75(3-4), 271–319. [1949] Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4285_003#page/170/mode/1up

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

In allusion to the Yungas, a regional name applied to portions of the eastern Andean slopes in Bolivia.