Acanthoxia

Acanthoxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Hemiacridinae
Tribe:	Leptacrini
Genus:	Acanthoxia Bolívar, 1906 [1]
Synonyms
ConyacanthellaGiglio-Tos, 1907 GonyacanthaStål, 1873 GonyacanthellaGiglio-Tos, 1907 MetapaStål, 1878 PretorianaUvarov, 1922

Acanthoxia is a genus of African grasshoppers in the tribe Leptacrini. ^[2]

Nomenclature

PretorianaCurran, 1938 may be a junior homonym of a tachinid fly genus; a moth genus invalidly named thus by Traugott-Olsen in 1995 is now considered a junior synonym of Perittia .

Species

1. Acanthoxia aculeus Grunshaw, 1996
2. Acanthoxia brevipenne Grunshaw, 1996
3. Acanthoxia gladiator (Westwood, 1841) - type species (as Opsomala gladiatorWestwood, 1841)
4. Acanthoxia lanceolata (Bolívar, 1890)
5. Acanthoxia natalensis (Krauss, 1877) (synonym Ischnacrida pretoriaeMiller, 1932)

References

1. Bolívar I (1906) Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 6(7): 392.
2. "genus Acanthoxia Bolívar, 1906". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.

External links

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