Biology:Tucayaca

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Short description: Genus of grasshoppers

Tucayaca
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Tucayaca gracilis, Argentina
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Leptysminae
Tribe: Leptysmini
Genus: Tucayaca
Bruner, 1920
Type species
Tucayaca aquatica
Bruner, 1920

Tucayaca is a genus of spur-throat toothpick grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are about five described species in Tucayaca, found mainly in South America.[1][2]

Species

These five species belong to the genus Tucayaca:

  • Tucayaca aquatica Bruner, 1920
  • Tucayaca biserrata Roberts, 1977
  • Tucayaca coeruleipes Roberts, 1977
  • Tucayaca gracilis (Giglio-Tos, 1897)
  • Tucayaca parvula Roberts, 1977

References

Wikidata ☰ Q10705974 entry