genus

Peropyrrhicia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

Type

Dichopetala massaiae Bormans, 1881 type species by original monotypy of Peropyrrhicia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

Peropyrrhicia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891: 4, 37.
type species by original monotypy Dichopetala massaiae Bormans, 1881
Peropyrrhizia [sic] Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 in Schulthess, 1898: 198.
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Peropyrrhicia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 in Felix & Massa, 2016: 13.
Peropyrrhicia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 (classified as Monticolariini Cadena-Castañeda, 2026) in Cadena-Castañeda, 2026: 21, 24, 78.

Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1891) Additamenta zur Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 1–196. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/141/mode/1up
Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2026) Studies on Phaneropterinae: The short-winged bush katydids, Odonturini sensu lato, Barbististini and their allies (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Twelfth contribution to the suprageneric organization of phaneropterines. Zootaxa, 5762(1), 1–82. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5762.1.1
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Ragge, D.R. (1980) A review of the African Phaneropterinae with open tympana (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 40(2), 67–192. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis40entolond
Schulthess, A.von (1898) Orthoptères du Pays des Somalis, recueillis par L. Robecchi-Brichetti en 1891 et par le Prince E. Ruspoli en 1892-93. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 39, 161–216. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33431#page/169/mode/1up

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Greek πηρός, maimed or disabled, and Pyrrhicia Stål, 1873, relating to the reduced flight organs.