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genus Chirista Karsch, 1893

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (11):
  • Karsch. 1893. Berlin Ent. Z. 38:54, 75   >> Chirista    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:51926
  • Bolívar, I. 1909. Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 9:291   >> Chirista
  • Sjöstedt. 1910[1909]. In Sjöstedt [Ed.]. Abteilung 15-22. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt 3:165   >> Note: synonym >> Chortoicetes
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):142   >> Chirista
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1914. Wiss. Ergebn. dtsch. Zent. Afr. Exped. 1907-1908 5:81   >> Chirista
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 609 >> Note: Truxalinae: Acridini: Group Phlaeobae >> Chirista
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:311 >> Chirista
  • Jago. 1971. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 123:212   >> Note: Acridinae >> Chirista
  • Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera) 148 >> Chirista
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 6:139 >> Note: Tetrigidae, subfamily uncertain, Rehn 1914 [error] >> Christa subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:68665
  • Popov, G.B., Fishpool & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2019. Jour. Orth. Res. 28(1):41, 66, 68   >> Note: Gymnobothrini >> Chirista
• Type species:  Stenobothrus comptus Walker, F. (= Chirista compta compta), by subsequent designation; authority:  Bolívar, I. 1909. Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 9:285-296
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Christa Otte, 1997
• species compta (Walker, 1870)
• subspecies auripennis Sjöstedt, 1931
• subspecies compta (Walker, 1870)

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