Rhammatocerus

Rhammatocerus
Rhammatocerus pictus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Gomphocerinae
Tribe: Scyllinini
Genus: Rhammatocerus
Saussure, 1861
Synonyms
  • Plectrophorus McNeill, 1897
  • Plectrotettix McNeill, 1897
  • Pseudostauronotus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  • Scyllina Stål, 1873

Rhammatocerus is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae and the tribe Scyllinini. There are about 16 described species in Rhammatocerus, including R. schistocercoides, the "Mato Grosso locust".

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Rhammatocerus:

References

  1. ↑ Saussure (1861) Revue et Magasin de Zoologie 2(13): 317.
  2. ↑ "Rhammatocerus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ↑ "Rhammatocerus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. ↑ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Rhammatocerus Saussure, 1861". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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