Biology:Rhammatocerus

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Short description: Genus of grasshoppers

Rhammatocerus
Rhammatocerus pictus.jpg
Rhammatocerus pictus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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[1] is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae and the tribe Scyllinini. There are about 16 described species in Rhammatocerus,[2][3][4][5] including R. schistocercoides, the "Mato Grosso locust".

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Rhammatocerus:

  • Rhammatocerus alticola (Hebard, 1923)
  • Rhammatocerus brasiliensis (Bruner, 1904)
  • Rhammatocerus brunneri (Giglio-Tos, 1895)
  • Rhammatocerus cyanipes (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Rhammatocerus guerrai Assis-Pujol, 1997
  • Rhammatocerus palustris Carbonell, 1988
  • Rhammatocerus peragrans (Stål, 1861)
  • Rhammatocerus pictus (Bruner, 1900)
  • Rhammatocerus pratensis (Bruner, 1904)
  • Rhammatocerus pseudocyanipes Assis-Pujol, 1997
  • Rhammatocerus salinus (Bruner, 1904)
  • Rhammatocerus schistocercoides (Rehn, 1906)
  • Rhammatocerus suffusus (Rehn, 1906)
  • Rhammatocerus varipes (Bruner, 1905)
  • Rhammatocerus viatorius (Saussure, 1861) (traveller grasshopper)
  • Rhammatocerus victori Alves Dos Santos & Assis-Pujol, 2003


References

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q10652109 entry