Betiscoides

Betiscoides
Betiscoides parva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Lentulidae
Subfamily: Lentulinae
Genus: Betiscoides
Sjöstedt, 1923
Type species
Betiscoides meridionalis
Sjöstedt, 1923

Betiscoides is a small genus of southern African grasshoppers in the family Lentulidae.

The grasshoppers of the genus Betiscoides have slender or very slender bodies and they are flightless, lacking wings. They have a conical head and the antennae are tapering. They are all found among the reed-like wetland plants of the genus Restio and their common name is the restio grasshoppers. All three species are classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

Species

There are three species in the genus Betiscoides:

References

  1. 1 2 Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Betiscoides Sjöstedt, 1923". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  2. ↑ K.H.L. Key (1937). "New Acridiidae from South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum. XXIII: 135–269.
  3. ↑ "Genus Betiscoides". IUCN. Retrieved 1 January 2018.