Abracris

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Abracris
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Abracris flavolineata, Panama
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Ommatolampidinae
Tribe: Abracrini
Genus: Abracris
Walker, 1870
Type species
Abacris dilecta
Walker, 1870
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • OsmiliaStål, 1873 [3]

Abracris is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least three described species in Abracris, found in North, Central, and South America. [1] [2]

Species

These three species belong to the genus Abracris:

References

  1. 1 2 "Abracris". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  2. 1 2 Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Abracris Walker, 1870". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  3. 1 2 Roberts, H. Radclyffe; Carbonell, Carlos S. (1981). "A Revision of the Neotropical Genus Abracris and Related Genera (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Ommatolampinae)". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 133: 1–14. JSTOR   4064766.