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genus Morphacris Walker, 1870

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (12):
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:790   >> Morphacris    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:64383
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):218   >> Morphacris
  • Kirby, W.F. 1914. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae) 137   >> Morphacris
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 521 >> Morphacris
  • Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology 1:35 >> Morphacris
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:348 >> Morphacris
  • Herrera, L. 1982. Ser. Entomol. 22:92 >> Morphacris
  • Fishelson. 1985. Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea 3:196 >> Morphacris
  • Otte, D. 1995. Orthoptera Species File 5:432 >> Note: Oedipodinae, tribe uncertain >> Morphacris
  • Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera) 432 >> Morphacris
  • Chapco & D. Contreras. 2012. Jour. Orth. Res. 21(2):279   >> Note: possibly related to Locustini >> Morphacris
  • Hemp, C. & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2020. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae 164 >> Morphacris
• Type species:  Morphacris adusta Walker, F. (= fasciata), by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Cosmorhyssa Stål, 1873
• species citrina Kirby, 1910
• species fasciata (Thunberg, 1815)
• synonym adusta Walker, 1870
• synonym aurantiaca Uvarov, 1921
• synonym costata (Saussure, 1888)
• synonym sanguinea (Thunberg, 1815)
• synonym strigata (Serville, 1838)
• synonym sulcatus (Thunberg, 1815)

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